Security is one of the most important aspects in human nature. Everyone is looking for some Security in terms of job, permanent place, feeling safe in an environment etc. Nobody wants to be un secure and always wanting to be in danger. This aspect of security is natural to a living soul as we are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and hence our nature is to be eternal. Question of Security comes into picture when we are afraid that what we have will be lost or when we have an experience of such a thing where something dear was lost. For example the body, if someone threatens to harm or kill the body we become very much on guard and try to take all the measures to secure it from harm, since everyone loves his or her body. Similarly when there seems to be some danger to the near and dear ones with whom we associate on daily basis, we become morose and try to protect them.
As per the Vedic literatures, this feeling of fearfulness and this thought of protecting against this fear i.e. security is mainly because of our false identification with the body. From the Vedic literature, especially Bhagavad-Gita we get the information that every living entity is a spirit soul, eternal, full of knowledge and always enjoying by constitution. It is due to our contact with the material energy which is temporary, full of ignorance and always miserable; we have this feeling of fearfulness and with this experience going on from ages we worry about security. Everyone has experience that material things are taken away which cause pain and that fear of that pain causes us to act in so many ways by which we try to adjust things around us so that we can feel secured in every sense. From practical experience everyone knows that this never happens. One may have a feeling of security for some time, but that fear of loosing always remains. Since we are identifying with a temporary body which is perishable, we always have fear of loosing it, and in order to free ourselves from this fear we create an association around us of friends, relatives etc, and feel secure in their company. This is called illusion or maya as per the Vedic literatures. Since we are creating a field of illusion around us by thinking that our friends, family etc will help us from the fear of loosing our body or the things which we most cherish. It is like, one blind man takes the help of another blind man to cross the road and he thinks that he is going in the right direction. This is exactly what we are doing; all the people around us are identifying with the temporary material body and fearing. With the company of other such people we can feel secured falsely for a while but that illusion will soon be broken in the form death either our death or death of near and dear ones.
Vedic Literature instructs the living entity to wake up from this ignorance, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya and move towards enlightenment. Enlightenment means knowing what we are and what is the purpose of our existence in this temporary material realm, knowledge about the difference between matter and spirit and ultimately knowing our constitutional position with respect to the Supreme Spirit. Knowledge and practical application of all the above mentioned things will free a living entity from the false conception of the body and will take him to a stage of spiritual understanding. With this spiritual understanding, one will not fall into false attachments in this material world and will not “hope against hope” to find answers to his or her miseries. Only security for a living entity in this material world is to come to the stage of self realization and identify its relation with the Supreme Soul and act in that relationship, since that is the original nature of the soul. Due to our forgetfulness of this relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna we are always fearful and trying to adjust material things in the name of security , which will only lead to more frustrations, since the platform ( i.e. material body) on which we are trying to adjust things itself is wrong. In this age of Kali Vedas recommend only one way to achieve this knowledge and feel eternally secure, i.e. chanting the holy names of the Lord, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. So please chant and be happy.
