Four fundamental fears are negated: death (mṛtyu), doubt (śaṅkā), birth (jāti), and uncertainty (saṃśaya). These are the deep anxieties that underlie all surface suffering — the terror of annihilation, the anguish of not knowing, the burden of repeated embodiment, the unease of not being sure. Aṣṭāvakra addresses them not with comfort but with fact: as pure Consciousness (śuddha caitanya), the Witness of all, you are untouched by any of these. The repeated address to “my mind” is itself a teaching device — even the mind that grieves is an object of awareness, not the Self that witnesses it.