Spiritual Journey Begins with a Leap of Faith
Belief in God is not a natural process that we as human beings just follow. We have to exercise our free will and actively make a decision to have faith in God.
Date: 5th May 2017
In the field of material science, we begin an experiment with a hypothesis and conclude with a verified result. But in the field of spiritual science, we begin the practice with a leap of faith which results in the direct perception of God.
The Bhakti Rasāmṛit Sindhu (1.4.15) states:
आदौ श्रद्धा ततः साधु-सङ्गो’थ भजन-क्रिया
ādau śhraddhā tataḥ sādhusaṅgo ’tha bhajanakriyā
The first step in the path to God-Realization is to have faith. Then one begins participating in satsaṅg (spiritual programs). This leads to the personal practice of devotion.
Often people say that they are only willing to believe in what they can directly perceive, and since there is no immediate perception of God, they do not believe in him. However, the fact is that we believe in so many things in the world too, without direct perception of them. A judge delivers judgment upon a case concerning an event that took place many years in the past. If the judge adopted the philosophy of believing only what he or she had directly experienced, then the entire legal system would fail.
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A President administers a country on the basis of reports from all over the country. It is impossible for him to visit and see all the villages and cities within his domain. Now, if he was not willing to believe these reports, on the grounds that he had no direct perception of what was happening, how would he be able to administer the whole country? So, even in material activities, faith is required at every step.
The Bible states this very nicely:
“We walk by faith, and not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) [v3]
Belief in God is not a natural process that we as human beings just follow. We have to exercise our free will and actively make a decision to have faith in God. Those who choose not to have faith in the spiritual path remain bereft of divine wisdom and continue rotating in the cycle of life and death.
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The knowledge of the scriptures is divine and we, with our material intellect are unable to grasp or absorb that knowledge. So to become capable of absorbing divine knowledge, we need the guidance of a Guru who can show the path and we need to show unquestionable faith. It is with such devotion that the Lord residing within us will grace us because of our surrender to the Guru.
Swamiji says that there are three ways in which we accept the existence of some phenomenon in nature, through experiential evidence, inferential evidence, and testimonial evidence. Swamiji asks us to think about whether or not we can apply this logic to determine whether or not God exists. Thank you, Swamiji.
Belief in God is not a natural process that we as human beings just follow. We have to exercise our free will and actively make a decision to have faith in God.
The Bible states “We walk by faith, and not by sight.”
Those who choose not to have faith in the spiritual path remain bereft of divine wisdom and continue rotating in the cycle of life and death.
in the field of spiritual science, we begin the practice with a leap of faith which results in the direct perception of God.
The first step in the path to God-Realization is to have faith. Then one begins participating in satsaṅg (spiritual programs). This leads to the personal practice of devotion.
Often people say that they are only willing to believe in what they can directly perceive, and since there is no immediate perception of God, they do not believe in him.
Just because we cannot see something does not mean that it does not exist.
Testimonial evidence is when we accept the authority of another.
When we experience the divine bliss through Sadhana we will have the proof that we are looking for in the existence of God.
Scientists recognize laws in everything, Therefore isn’t it a common sensical thing that if there are so many laws there must be a law maker?
Having full faith in God and Guru is the most important step to progress in spirituality.
In the material world also we believe in so many things without direct perception of them.
We should believe in what is written in scriptures and not waste time to test them.
The first step in the path to God-Realization is to have faith. Then one begins participating in satsaṅg (spiritual programs). This leads to the personal practice of devotion.
Without faith in the spiritual path,one remains bereft of divine wisdome
It’s not natural to have a belief in God, we have to make a decision to have faith in God.
In the field of spiritual science,we begin with practice of fait which results in perception of God.
People say that they don’t believe in God because they can not perceive Him immediately.
Even in material activities,faith is required at every step.
It is very commonsensical that if there are laws then there must be a LAWMAKER.
As we can not see butter in the milk, similarly we can’t see God immediately, there is a process of sadhana, purify the mind and see Him.
Those who don’t choose to have faith in God,continue rotating in the cycle of life and death.
Since nobody is all knowing, no body can establish the non-existence of God.
without putting in the effort, we don’t have right to say that there is no God.
We have to exercise our free will and make a decision to have faith in God.