We are all born cowards.
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.
Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.