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Faith and Spiritual Faith
To believe what you do not know is faith.
E.g. to have faith in others is to believe in them even though you do
not know the details of their actions. Spiritual faith is to have faith
in the Divine.
Spiritual Faith
Spiritual faith is to have faith in the Divine working.
On
Spiritual Faith
Faith blossoms unspoken. Faith does not discover its form in words.
"Well, how can I accept without knowing what
happened?" is the question. The answer is,
"It is not faith that believes KNOWN facts. To believe what you
do not know is faith."When a convincing
explanation is given, what does the listener accept? He accepts his own
conviction or understanding. That is not faith. To accept another man
without trying to know the details of the situation is Faith.
To believe in what
is behind the curtain is faith. To say, "I can
accept what I understand"
is to believe yourself, not the other person. All great achievements in
history or literature happened because of faith, especially when the
achievements were new to the society. (MSS)
(Spiritual) Faith that is Truth Beyond
Knowledge
Faith is a thing that precedes knowledge, not comes after knowledge.
It is a glimpse of a truth which the mind has not yet seized as
knowledge. (Sri Aurobindo)
Spirit is
More Powerful than Mind
As the mind is more powerful than the body, the Spirit is more
powerful than the mind. Once you believe, intensify that belief into
faith by comprehending the superior nature of Spirit as you have
witnessed in your life. (MSS)
Silence, Depths Engender
Spiritual Faith
Silence that Engenders
Spiritual Faith
When the mind
falls silent, the vital withdraws its urges.
And the body surrenders. There is developed faith.
(Paraphrase of MSS)
Silence and Spiritual Faith
The first step for reaching the soul, is for the Mind to fall
silent. The mind and vital are then settled; the body surrenders,
which engenders faith in the Divine Reality.
Moving within and Spiritual Faith
Moving to the depths engenders faith.
Spiritual Faith as the Knowledge,
Experience of the Soul
Spiritual Faith
Spiritual Faith is the Knowledge
of the Soul.
Faith in Divine as Knowledge of
Soul
Having faith that the Divine will work things out for us is a
knowledge of the Soul, Spirit within.
Soul Experience and Spiritual Faith
When we have experience of the presence of the Soul within, we
develop greater faith in the Spiritual Reality.
Faith as Truth Power
Spiritual Faith is power of Truth from within.
Spiritual Faith Engendered by Soul Experience
What is faith? In general it is the giving of complete trust to someone
or something else in the belief that it will produce relief or benefit.
We give such trust freely, not knowing the details of what will be done
and how it will come about. All we "know," is that the other party -- a
subordinate, a friend, the Divine spirit -- will do what is necessary ON
ITS OWN, without the requirement of our knowledge.
Let me focus on Faith in the Spirit.
Normally we take to it because it is our last hope, or because we have
seen its working in the past, which engenders confidence that
surrendering to it will work again. However, for there to be true,
ongoing faith in the Divine -- whether in times of need or reliance on
it to succeed -- we will need to have experience of the spirit, of Soul
within. The feeling of the Presence within will gives us a great faith
in the wider Spiritual Reality. Then, when challenging situations
arise in our lives, we will be able to defer to that wider Reality to
bring us good fortune. Thus the basis of ongoing faith is ongoing Soul
experience within.
Definition of
(Spiritual) Faith
Faith is the knowledge of the soul reflected in the Mind.
(MSS)
Spiritual
Faith is a Movement of Soul Within
Faith is a movement of the soul deep within us, a power of Truth,
a direct and spontaneous knowing which is truer than mental knowledge.
Faith is most effective when it
is integral -- not
only the mind, but the heart and the body should share it
-- and when we do not expect or insist
on a particular result, but rather give up our claims and expectations
and maintain our confidence regardless of the apparent outcome.
The intuitive perception and reliance on the Divine
Consciousness opens up our being to the descent and working of that
power in our inner and outer lives. When a problem or opportunity
arises, instead of relying on our own capacities and resources, we can
shift our faith to that power and see it take charge of the issue. The
surest sign of that faith is when we feel a sense of peace and
satisfaction, even before the issue has been outwardly resolved. Then we
can know we have put the issue in the hands of a power that never fails.
When we rely on That even in apparently insignificant daily events
-- then the true Consciousness behind
the surface of life reveals itself.
Spiritual Faith and Soul
Faith is the knowledge and experience of the soul. Therefore, when you
discover your personal evolving soul at some point along the path, faith
will be ever-present and ever-lasting.
Spiritual Faith that Comes through
Soul-Connection
Faith in the Divine comes
as knowledge of one's soul. When we connect to our personal evolving
soul (the psychic being), faith increases. In that way we come to faith
in Joy, instead of coming to it by being tested through the despair of
serious problems. We must learn to move from faith in life's
institutions; e.g. law if we are involved in a law case, medicines if we
are sick, etc.; even to the miraculousness of life response itself for
faith in the working of the divine Force, the divine Mother. This is the
true faith. (Paraphrase of MSS)
Faith as Experience of the Power of the Spirit to
Solve
-When one has experience the power of the Spirit to rectify a
problem or support positive results before, one develops a faith in It
as new situations arise. In that sense faith is knowledge of the
effective power of the Spirit of the Soul.
-If one does not have this power of faith, one can move within toward
the Soul to discover it.
Return to Faith of Soul Status to
Make Life Move
When
everything stops, and nothing moves in our lives, it is time to learn
patience, and discover faith by returning to our soul status.
Thoughts on
Moving to the Depths Within
Thoughts on the Evolving Soul Within
Faith in the Force
Faith in the Spiritual Force
One can have faith in the Divine reality, or perhaps better yet in
the Spiritual Force that is the instrument of the reality.
Consecration and Soul Connection
that Engenders Faith in, Surrender to the Spiritual Force
The more we consecrate activates, i.e. offer them to the spiritual Force
before commencing, and see its miraculous-like results hereafter, the
more faith we develop. The deepest, ongoing faith however develops
through experiences of the Spiritual presence within; i.e. of the Soul.
The combination of the two engenders infinite faith in and a
willingness and need to surrender to the workings of the Divine Force to
solve any problem, achieve any result, and to discover our purpose in
life.
The Power of
the Hopeless Moment to Use the Force
This is really a hopeless MOMENT. [The] Mother
says a hopeless moment is the best occasion to call Her as She can act
most powerfully. At such moments, we believe in nothing. Our beliefs
that stand in the way of the Force working effectively have now deserted
us. (MSS)
Faith Beyond Belief in
the Power of the Spirit
We believe in the power of Spirit, but belief
must rise to pure Faith
to accomplish in life.
(Paraphrase of MSS)
Two Determinants of Faith that
Accomplish
There are two parts
to faith that cures, solves, etc. One is the
Force that grants, the other is the faith of the person who prays.
(Paraphrase of MSS)
Spiritual Faith's Accomplishment
Levels of Faith
Producing Various Levels of Accomplishment
Faith of
any description yields results. A superior faith brings superior
results. A boy having superstitious faith passes his M.A. in second
class and becomes a lecturer in the university. One whose faith is based
on understanding becomes an educationist of national eminence. He who
has the simple pure faith in the Divine, disregarding his crystal clear
understanding that is precise, rises to become an original thinker who
contributes to his subject attaining international eminence winning the
Noble Prize.
(MSS)
Faith in Divine that Creates
Greatest Results,
Resolves Any Problem
Often we take a greater interest
in a work, put all our passionate energy into it. In such a case, our
whole energy of the temperament goes into it. We call him dynamic.
Philosophy rates it as the second level of energy. The first is the
ordinary human energy. The second is the higher human energy.
Man shifts himself from the human centre to the divine centre in him.
Then his energy becomes divine energy. People like Nehru and Gandhi
exhibited such divine energy in their patriotic service. To them,
the Divine Mother was the Divine. That is a
third level of human functioning.
So far, man took the initiative. Hereafter man allows the Divine to take
initiative in him. Beyond this, Man acquires the
knowledge that it is not he who acts but it is Nature that acts
in him, acts through him.
He allows things to happen on their own accord, i.e.
he withdraws the egoistic insistence and initiative of the ego. What
acts then is his FAITH. That faith cures, unfailingly.
The cancer is cured overnight, stone dissolves. The scan that showed the
stone five days earlier, discloses that there is no stone. The doctor
who called the patient mad before the scan issues the discharge notice.
(MSS, slightly paraphrased)
Consecrating our Aspiration and
Faith
When we aspire to achieve a thing, we need to have faith in the
result. If we consecrate our aspiration that we have faith that
the Divine power will bring us what It deems he best and right result.
Faith in the Result
Faith in What
Comes, Not What We Want, is to Have Faith in
Faith
Faith in the Divine does not always bring what we wish for. It can bring
another thing. To accept the rightness of what is actually brought is to
have faith in Faith in the result.
Consecrating our Aspiration and
Faith
When we aspire to achieve a thing, we need to have faith in the
result. If we consecrate our aspiration that we have faith that
the Divine power will bring us what It deems he best and right result.
Other
Faith in Another's
Faith
Faith works, always works. Man has a way of looking for someone on whose
faith he can live. That too yields a miraculous result ONCE. It is the
faith in another's faith, a vicarious human effort. (MSS)
Withdrawal of Thought that Generates New Thought
A certain type of trust
or faith is involved when one withdraws thought with the gentle
expectation that new, dynamic creative, understanding will rise on its
own.
ARTICLE on Having Faith in Life
MSS Article on Faith
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