Reg "unquestionable faith"

[Guest guest]

What is it that you have wavering or questionable faith in: the religion or

the existence of God or your faith to God? It sounds more like the existence

of God himself to me. If this is the case, the bouts of doubts or non-belief

comes to humans basically in my opinion due to lack of understanding clearly

this enormous entity called God. (enormous can be questioned, depends on what

aspects of God you wish to discuss etc., but atleast in the sense of human

comprehension until you comprehend). In addition, it doesn't help for earning

your bread or whatever that however you may want to look at it, you are in

pursuit of materialistic things in a materialistic world. (you is meant to be

general, not specific to you alone) I have no idea how much you know about

God, philosophy etc., but I think the more deeply you understand the

various qualities of God and atleast a fair bit of Vaishnavite (or whichever

you wish to understand more) philosophy, by a very gradual process, your

faith in God will become more and more unshakable- if you have reached a stage

wherein you experience God (in whatever or whichever form it may be), then

you no longer will have doubts; but it also seems that when you no longer have

doubts you may experience God. It is atleast with this and many other benevolent

influences in mind that in our philosophy you are constantly urged to associate

with men of 'wisdom' not just of this world, but of the inner grander

experiences.

on a very sincere and truthful basis. The more you seek, the more things will

become clearer and perhaps dearer will be the longing for Him. Unfortunately,

the modern world does not teach us patience very well. What you want to

experience can be a lifetime pursuit - the question then will be: are u willing

to spend your life in this search? Are u ready to make the sacrifices that it

may demand? And finally are u capable of absorbing the immensity of what you

may find?

 

( Just some thoughts; I have even yet to scratch the surface of the body of

information, knowledge and wisdom of our great philosophy (when I can do it

what I want to explore is SriVaishnavite philosophy - on a personal note, even

the at times questioned faith I have is because of my parents unshakable

faith in God due to their own personal experiences in life not visions of God.

But of late my dad has begun fortifying his knowledge and wisdom in our

philosophy by associating with torch bearers of our faith and immersing

himself in our scriptures. He says if one can read and understand the rich

meaning of our scriptures, you will not for evne for a pico second doubt the

absolute authority of Vishnu; there is never a need for doubting Him, and

thus there need be no other God to surrender for any of your wishes-including

this-to realize Him; simply said Mahavishnu is the one and only God who can

give you what u want. -sounds more like denial of other religions on the

face of it, but no; it comes from the fact that you have no longer any doubts

to feel the want of anything lesser or different)

 

I don't know whether I answered atleast in part or raised some more doubts. The

more I think about it, the more I have to say; but my thinking is very very

limited, lacking much of the knowledge or undrstanding of our philosophy. So

pointing to a fact that may be true in more families in India, I will stop.

If as a child you are prompted to pray to God because He will grant you this

or that, somehow you would have developed a lack of faith in God when you don't

get what u desired and more jubiliant (not necessarily more faithful) when you

prayed and got something. This inculcation is wrong - children if they are

taught to pray to God should be taught not to ask for anything from Him-

after all it will only reinforce the thought He knows what u need, don't u

think?)

 

Vaidehi V.