How Fear First Takes Hold

“Fear is something not to be served, but something to be made okay with.”

For Vishrant, the fear of sharks began in childhood after the sudden death of his diving teacher, a man who was taken by sharks. Every time he returned to the water, he carried the fear of sharks with him.

The shift came when he realised something simple and profound: running from fear feeds it, but turning toward it weakens its grip. Before entering the water, he would imagine the worst that could happen. By allowing the possibility of death in his mind, fear lost its power. Instead of resisting it, he accepted it. And in that acceptance, he found freedom.

This became a lifelong practice. Whether diving in shark filled waters or stepping into full contact kung fu fights, he discovered that courage is not the absence of fear. It is the refusal to bow to it.

Fear loses its throne the moment we stop serving it.

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The Courage to Walk Toward Fear

“If something frightened me, I would walk toward it rather than away from it.”

Most people serve fear. It whispers limits, builds invisible walls, and convinces us that avoidance equals safety. But avoidance is just another form of imprisonment. What we run from grows larger. What we face shrinks.

By “dying” in his imagination before every fight, Vishrant diminished the power of fear. Once death was accepted inside, it lost its power outside. That inner surrender gave rise to a very different kind of strength — not the strength of defiance but of acceptance.

When you walk toward what scares you, you reclaim the part of your life that fear once held hostage.

The Near Death Experience That Opened the Heart

“I felt an unconditional love so beautiful that it broke me open.”

Years later, a violent storm off the coast of Western Australia changed everything. His boat was sinking, the water was freezing, hammerhead sharks circled nearby, and no help was coming. Drifting in the dark, slipping into hypothermia, he looked at his partner beside him and realised his choices had placed her life at risk. The regret he felt cracked something in him. Through that crack, love flooded in.

It was not sentimental or romantic. It was pure, overwhelming, unconditional love that rose in the face of death. It shattered his identity and dissolved the successful businessman he had been.

Some moments break us open so deeply that nothing old survives. In that openness, the heart shows itself as boundless, tender, and astonishingly alive.

Letting Go of Success to Find What Really Matters

“My heart was more important than any amount of wealth.”

The love Vishrant touched at sea made something unmistakably clear. The armour he had used to build worldly success had also numbed his heart. Wealth, status, and identity had become layers of protection — strong enough to keep out danger, but also strong enough to keep out love.

So he walked into his businesses, handed them to his staff, gave away his possessions, and walked around Australia barefoot, serving heart in any way he could. In doing this, he found something he had never known as a businessman: simplicity, humility, and the quiet joy of being a nobody going nowhere.

The less he carried, the more love he could feel.

Becoming a Nobody: The Freedom of Openness

“Love is perceived when we are open. It is not truly perceived when we are closed.”

Walking across Australia with no name and no destination, he discovered something profound. Freedom does not come from having nothing to do. It comes from having nothing to defend. With no identity to protect, the perception of heart became easy and immediate.

Closure is the conditioned state of the mind. When we let our guard down even for a moment, love reveals itself.

To become a nobody is not to lose yourself. It is to lose what was never truly you.

What Blocks Love and Real Connection

“The walls we build to protect ourselves are the same walls that keep love out.”

Most of us learn early to harden, to perform, to defend, or to hide. These strategies protect us from pain, but they also block intimacy, beauty, and real connection.

When we cling to identity, we cannot feel heart. When we defend, we cannot receive. The armour that once kept us safe eventually becomes the cage that keeps love away.

Awakening begins the moment we set the shield down, even for a breath, and let life touch us.

How Awakening Really Begins

“What supports the perception of love is openness. What ends it is defensiveness.”

If you want to awaken, you must face what stands in the way. For most people, that obstacle is closure — the automatic tightening against pain, vulnerability, and life itself.

The path begins with presence. With dropping the guard. With feeling instead of hiding. Every belief that contracts the heart must be questioned. Every defensive pattern must be softened. The way of the heart — what many traditions call the noble path — is built on openness.

Awakening is not escaping the world. It is seeing the world through an open heart.

The Courage to Be Vulnerable

“It takes more courage to be open than it does to be closed.”

Vulnerability is often mistaken for weakness, but it is the deepest form of strength. Openness invites connection, intimacy, and love. Openness strips away the illusion of control.

To be vulnerable is to say to life:
I am willing to feel.
I am willing to be touched.
I am willing to live without armour.

People who live this way are beautiful. Their presence is felt before their words are spoken.

Real strength is in openness.

Yin and Yang: Strength Through Receptivity

“To really be in touch with heart, we need to be more yin.”

Masculinity and femininity are not tied to gender. They are energetic qualities. Yang pushes. Yin receives. Yang contracts. Yin opens.

In the modern world, both men and women have become overly yang — driven, defended, always pushing outward and onward. But love moves through the yin qualities: sensitivity, softness, receptivity.

To be open does not weaken you. It deepens your strength.

The true warrior is undefended.

Bringing Heart into Leadership

“A leader must be more interested in taking care of people than taking advantage of them.”

Leadership without heart becomes self focused. Leadership with heart becomes service. When a leader shifts from “What can I get?” to “How can I take care of them?” everything changes.

Service melts the harshness of ambition and turns success into meaning. Work environments transform. Teams flourish. Purpose replaces pressure.

Selfishness destroys everything it touches. Love restores it.

Why Surrender Is the Highest Strength

“It takes courage to surrender. It takes no courage to resist.”

Surrender is not collapse, passivity, or defeat. It is the willingness to let go of control and meet life as it is.

Resistance creates suffering. Acceptance dissolves it. In surrender, love shows itself naturally because there is nothing standing between you and reality.

Heaven and hell are not places. They are states of mind created by acceptance or resistance.

The Practice That Rewires the Mind

“Default patterning must be undone through practice.”

Fear, tension, closure, and defensiveness are patterns formed over many years. They do not vanish through insight alone. They dissolve through practice — thousands of small openings, thousands of moments of letting go.

While walking across Australia, he spent four years practicing openness until it became natural. Without business identity or social expectation, the heart could rest.

Your patterns may not even be yours. They may be inherited. But with steady practice, even old fear fades.

Freedom is learned one moment of openness at a time.

Learning to Feel Energy and Intuition

“The energy world is real, and intuition arises from being in touch with it.”

Humans transmit emotion constantly — anger, joy, fear, sadness. When the mind grows quiet, you begin to feel these subtle waves beneath the surface. This is the beginning of intuition.

Intuition is not thought. It is direct perception. It is the felt sense beneath all the noise. When you learn to feel rather than think, everything becomes clearer.

Sensitivity is the hidden language of the heart.

The Power of Silence

“The more silent you are, the more you can feel.”

The mind is loud. It comments, judges, and distracts. Silence pulls back the curtain. In silence, intuition strengthens, emotions clarify, and the heart becomes audible.

Silence is not emptiness. It is the space where life can finally be felt.

Finding a True Spiritual Teacher

“If you can feel the person has heart, it is probably true.”

There are many performers in the spiritual world. People can imitate the gestures, tone, and language of awakening. But presence cannot be faked. Heart cannot be imitated.

If you rely on thinking, you may be misled. But if you feel, you will know.

A true teacher softens you. A true teacher helps your heart open. A true teacher reminds you of what you already are.

The Way of the Heart

“Love is the most important thing on this planet.”

Love is the real measure of wealth. Not money, not titles, not possessions, but the ability to live open, undefended, and in tune with your heart. When love becomes the centre of your life, fear fades, clarity returns, and the mind grows quiet.

To walk the way of the heart is to choose openness over resistance, presence over distraction, and surrender over control. This is the root of awakening, and it is available to anyone who is willing to practice letting go.

If you want to go deeper, dissolve fear, and feel heart directly: not as an idea but as real experience, you are warmly invited to Satsang with Vishrant.

Satsang is a space of presence, silence, and direct transmission where you can learn to open, let go, and discover peace beyond the mind.