Faith

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Dear List, the following article is an speech from Sridhar Maharaja, the diksa

guru for Das and me. Although Sridhar Maharaja departed from this mundane

world in 1988, he is still alive in his written words.

 

I hope that you like it.

 

Best wishes

Natabara das

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Awake in the World of Faith

 

Srila Sridhar Maharaja on disconnecting from sense perception and living in the world of faith.

 

Faith is the only instrument for the finite to measure the infinite. To survey

the infinite, all other methods are futile. Faith is the most spacious

substance within us. It can cover a long, long distance. In the infinite, what

faith can we have in faith? We fear blind faith. Yet, in the infinite, the

impossible becomes possible. Everything is possible, but only faith has the

possibility of connecting us with the infinite, while all other methods are

useless.

 

Sraddha, faith, can go a long distance. And we shall be able to feel and

conceive that faith is not merely imaginary. It has its tangible position, a

most efficient position within us. When we can disconnect from all phases of

perceptual experience, we can live in faith alone. When all the wealth of our

experience deceives us and makes treachery with us, our faith will save us.

 

Some persons are awake in the world of experience. Their day is the world of

experience and their night is the soul's world, God’s world. And another class

of men are wakeful in the soul’s world and are sleeping in this world of

experience. This world is darkness to them, and they are quite awake in the

world of faith. They find that the world of faith is a permanent world.

 

The soul, however tiny, has a substantial position in eternity; it is an eternal

factor in that world of faith. There, we shall find: "Whatever I see is eternal.

Nothing will be effaced at any time. I am a member of the world of reality, and

through faith I can reach such a subtle plane that never dies or changes."

 

There is such a subtle, higher plane, and my soul is a member of that plane. The

soul is wakeful there and is asleep in this world of experience, having no

connection with it. And the man of the world of experience with flesh and

blood, he is wakeful here, whereas that real world—the soul world—is like dark

night to him.

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Omsri hanumate namah,

 

Thank you so much.

regards,

rambha.

-

Natabara Das

gjlist

Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:23 PM

[GJ] Faith

Dear List, the following article is an speech from Sridhar Maharaja, the diksa

guru for Das and me. Although Sridhar Maharaja departed from this mundane

world in 1988, he is still alive in his written words.

 

I hope that you like it.

 

Best wishes

Natabara das

****

Awake in the World of Faith

 

Srila Sridhar Maharaja on disconnecting from sense perception and living in the world of faith.

 

Faith is the only instrument for the finite to measure the infinite. To survey

the infinite, all other methods are futile. Faith is the most spacious

substance within us. It can cover a long, long distance. In the infinite, what

faith can we have in faith? We fear blind faith. Yet, in the infinite, the

impossible becomes possible. Everything is possible, but only faith has the

possibility of connecting us with the infinite, while all other methods are

useless.

 

Sraddha, faith, can go a long distance. And we shall be able to feel and

conceive that faith is not merely imaginary. It has its tangible position, a

most efficient position within us. When we can disconnect from all phases of

perceptual experience, we can live in faith alone. When all the wealth of our

experience deceives us and makes treachery with us, our faith will save us.

 

Some persons are awake in the world of experience. Their day is the world of

experience and their night is the soul's world, God’s world. And another class

of men are wakeful in the soul’s world and are sleeping in this world of

experience. This world is darkness to them, and they are quite awake in the

world of faith. They find that the world of faith is a permanent world.

 

The soul, however tiny, has a substantial position in eternity; it is an eternal

factor in that world of faith. There, we shall find: "Whatever I see is eternal.

Nothing will be effaced at any time. I am a member of the world of reality, and

through faith I can reach such a subtle plane that never dies or changes."

 

There is such a subtle, higher plane, and my soul is a member of that plane. The

soul is wakeful there and is asleep in this world of experience, having no

connection with it. And the man of the world of experience with flesh and

blood, he is wakeful here, whereas that real world—the soul world—is like dark

night to him.

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