Is it possible to eliminate fear completely?

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Is the goal to eliminate fear completely, or to be not affected by fear as one witnesses it within? I ask because as long as one has expectations from others, one needs to fulfill their desires, which can inhibit freedom and create fear.

Acharya Prashant:

Fear is not an external object.

Fear is your relationship with that object.

When you say, or ask, “Is fear about remaining unaffected by fear?” Then you are talking about that relationship between you and that object.

If you can remain unaffected, then the relationship is broken.

So, there is no fear.

If there is a monster, in this room, and you are not conscious of it, and thereby you have no relationship with it. Would there still be fear? If there is a monster in this room and you know of it but have forgotten it, would there still be fear? So, fear is an active relationship with something. The moment you say that you can remain unaffected by that thing, the relationship is already broken; so, there is no fear. It is not ‘things’ that disturb you, but your perception of what those things can do to you. Are you getting it?