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How is Faith Built?
Faith is something extremely important if one is a spiritual aspirant
and no less important if one is not a spiritual aspirant but seeks progress
in this world, because without faith nothing is possible. This is the
message of my Master that without faith one can do nothing. Now how
to develop it? [An abhyasi puts this question during conversation] That
is of course a big question and based on the experience of our own abhyasis.
My Master was able to explain it in a simple way. For instance take
the questioner himself. His friend tells him "Here is a man, Shri
Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur, who is able to do this, that
and the other in spirituality and can make you grow to your highest
potential, take you up to the level of divinisation. Why don't you try
it?" If the questioner has the necessary belief in his friend,
that the friend is talking with his interest in heart, and his past
performance makes it possible for him to believe in his friend's advice/
well, the questioner comes to one of us, starts the practice, which
means the belief in his friend brings him here.
Now comes the second stage that as he practices the meditation or the
sadhana system that is offered under Shri Ram Chandra Mission's banner,
he finds that he has his own personal experiences arising out of the
practice which serves to strengthen the belief which brought him here
and we find that slowly the belief grows into a state of overall belief
which we call trust. So belief leads to trust, provided one is following
the Marg and trying to see where it leads. Now as we go on with
trust in the system, the very fact that we trust something seems to
deepen our perceptive abilities, our practical ability to do something
with ourselves and we find ourselves the recipients of more and more
important and all-pervasive experiences of a nature which we could never
have anticipated without this trust. Trust deepens our own ability to
perform on ourselves and deepens the experiences, so that every moment
of a trustful performance seems to deepen the performance itself and
leads to deeper results, ultimately culminating in what we call faith.
So belief leads to trust which leads to faith.
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