CONSTRUCTIVE FORCE OF FAITH

 

Faith is a constructive force in our life. It is the central urge which sustains life. The pure reasoning leads us to knowledge, which, in turn, gives us faith. Faith is based on our way of thinking. We get the complete view of mental phenomena by putting belief, reason, knowledge and faith together. In this way, rational thinking breeds faith. Belief being easily shaken is superficial whereas faith makes us strong and steadfast. We may believe at first glance but we have faith after we go through the subject matter comprehensively. A doubting mind is a diseased mind.  A thinner ray of doubt harms mental-health. We can neither receive a blessing nor retain it so long as our mind suffers from doubt. Doubt finally leads a person to despair.

A person having doubting mind always destroys whatever has been created for his happiness while a man of faith builds something beautiful in spite of troubles. The former is always pessimist whereas the later has a trust in optimism. A man of faith is never faint-hearted. He is always high-spirited. In case of difficulty, he does not sink heart because he has trust in the infinite and inexhaustible reservoir of life. He has plenty of self-confidence in his infinite strength. Doubt destroys not only the moral fibre of humanity but also the entire social fabric as it throws the whole world into a state of turmoil. Doubt has a tendency to destroy and it always brings a tight spot into being. A man of doubt misses the goal of existence since he misses the opportunities, which come to him. In this way, he has to face hardships. We should welcome hardships so that we may prove our faith.

Our connection with the great whole should always be the starting point for our thought and action. All our thought and action ought to emerge out of the purity of heart. The man of doubting mind is neither happy in this world nor in the next, because only the things we have set our heart on here are carried to the next world. A doubting mind breeds unending gloominess which makes the environment negative.

We can trust in that which is invisible and changeable instead of becoming proud or self-satisfied when we are able to realize our identity with that through discrimination. That is why we should trust in our mental faculty for having a true faith. All true faith is based on realization. For having a true faith, we should depend on our understanding. Before having faith, each person must prove everything for himself. He should make use of logics. We are helpless to face the difficulties until we have put theoretical ideas into practice and proved them by experience. This experience provides us with knowledge. We are not able to fathom many things, which will remain obscure to us until we have perceived our own possibilities and penetrated to the depth of our being. In this way, we live under the shadow of doubt of self. The Doubt of self rises because we are unaware of what we are. We are ignorant of our own strength. Whenever we meet difficulties, which are sure to rise, we must keep in mind that they are bound to disappear as they are born of finite conditions. However we should not become passive under such a situation, we should struggle to defeat those difficulties. Therefore, we must keep our faith unwavering and we should make persistent efforts to be triumphant.

Belief results from reasoning and argument. It comes into force when something convinces us. We analyse, reflect on and at last decide to believe what we hear as it being appealing to us. However, the belief rests on the surface and a thin ray of doubt in our mind may shift this belief. Consequently, doubt is more powerful than belief. On the other hand, a real faith is based on actual experience and nothing can shake us when we possess that. Doubt can never shatter the real faith. A great storm rages inside mind when a little doubt enters which leaves us exhausted. This agitation makes our mind weaker than before. Doubt is always wasteful and destructive. Doubt, having negative trends, ruins the neurons of mind. We are able to accomplish little without faith. Faith provides us with astonishing strength. In this way, to have faith is always more beneficial than having a doubting mind. A doubting mind always shows signs of a critical attitude. A critic does a great harm by dropping just one doubting thought into a mind and that grows until the mind is ruined. We feel exhausted when all this happens.

We become whatever we think. We lead ourselves to the direction of our thoughts. If we constantly think ourselves to be significant and worthy, we shall become that. We do not undermine our strength in such a case. We are on familiar terms with the common sense. Only a few people can differentiate real from unreal and fewer still that have the courage to follow the real. When faith is not fully established in our life, we get a glimpse of truth many times but we fail to retain it having overpowered by prejudices or past habits. It follows that we need to depend on the constructive force of faith.

According to the book ‘100% Mind-Power’, “There actually is intelligence within every cell and atom of the body and this intelligence is tied to the subconscious mind……There is an intelligence that is Universal, an intelligence that exists within the atom and is reproduced in and through every part of life extending into the infinite Universe. There is no place, where this intelligence does not exist. All is mind and the creation of mind.