Faith is the complete trust
that we have in God by being ever responsive to the Infinite Will of God at the
same time. Human life exists out of the correlation of the opposites. It is
only the life of spiritually elevated beings which is in harmony with the
natural forces and strike a perfect balance. It is a mixed bag of sorrow and
joy, elation and depression, laughter and cry, happiness and sadness, tragedies
and comedies, success and failure, poverty and good fortune in the lives of
normal human beings. Likewise, the traits of the profane and sacred, the holy
and a sinner, a saint and a swindler, a thorough gentleman and a thug, a
perfect lady and a whore, a miser and a philanthropist, the rich and the poor,
the spiritual and the material, an Emperor and a beggar are the mixture of the humanistic
qualities found in the entire world population. The interaction of people among themselves and the varying degrees of situations and circumstances like the
weather, state of affairs of the community, society and the world, personal
health, the struggle for existence, factors like the vengence and grudge people
have to prove their point, competition, violence, peace, goodwill, love,
compassion, chastity, trust, plenty of sunshine, the flowering of the spring,
the perfect atmosphere of the autumn makes human life prone to the play of the
opposite forces. Human life is a comedy for the spiritualists and a great tragedy for the materialists. Human life is a
comedy for the spiritualists because the spiritually elevated beings are beyond
the state of suffering and forever established in Sathyam-Sivam-Sundaram or in
the ever and permanent state of Sat-Chit-Anand. Whereas, it is impossible for
normal material beings to remain intact in the state of Eternal Bliss because
of the varying degrees of the effects of the opposing forces in their lives.
Therefore, the only tool or instrument to take sorrow and joy, happiness and
sadness, elation and depression, laughter and cry with equanimity and move on
in life with calm and equation and be satisfied, happy and to take in the most
Supreme Godhead’s Will positively, optimistically by being ever responsive to
the Divine Will is “Faith”. By faith, we normally should understand the
complete trust in the most Supreme Godhead in the state of total surrender to His Infinite
Will.
“Faith in God can turn the
impossible to possible.”
-Ashwas Thapa
Having a strong faith
in God can make everything possible in your life, but this kind of faith should
be something which should not have even a slight deviation of doubt in it. For
example, one of the Apostles of Jesus had such a strong faith in Christ that he
started walking on top of the water of the
ocean without sinking but the moment he lost faith in the Son of God he
started drowning. So the criteria for turning the impossible things in your life
into the possible would be having faith in the Infinite Being if you want to
convert the hardships in your life into a living possibility. Impossible dreams
can be realised just merely by having trust and faith in God. Faith in God is
such a thing which can even change the course of your destiny. God can even
Will His Will for your life to take a different course if you have faith in Him and if you are ever responsive to His Divine Will.
“God transforms
Himself into the devotee’s devotee if one has a strong devotion and faith in
Him.”
-A devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Faith
in God can work miracles.”
-Ashwas Thapa
God listens to each and every
prayer of His devotee and answers them plus fulfills them if the devotee is
very sincere in devotion and very strong in faith towards Him. Therefore,
evaluating His devotees devotion and faith and so having great concern for him
God transforms Himself into the devotee’s devotee. From then on, God is a wish
fulfilling tree for His most loved devotee. Having a strong faith in God is the
key to the miraculous. Let us look at some examples.
Hiranyakashipu’s
son and a great devotee of Lord Vishnu, Prahlad, was saved on numerous
occasions from the mouth of death by the Grace of Lord Vishnu. The only thing
that saved Prahlad from Hiranyakashipu annihilating him was the devotion and
faith he had in Lord Vishnu. Finally, when the sins of Hiranyakashipu reached
its height and when the Ashura King himself took up the sinful act of
slaughtering Bhakta Prahlad, Lord Vishnu Himself incarnated into the Nrisimha
Avataar and feasted into the blood of the Ashura King by tearing his chest
apart. This is a terrific example of the heights of compassion God can have for
his most loved devotee. Let us look at another example of the Mahabharata War. The
Mahabharata war was at it’s inception and the moment came for the Pandavas and
Kauravas to choose between Lord Krishna and His armed forces which was believed
to have amounted to ten million. Satanic Duryodhana underestimating the Might
and Leela of Lord Krishna chose His army whereas the righteous Pandavas opted
to obtain the singlehanded support of Lord Krishna because they had faith that
His Grace and Blessings could alone make them victorious at the end of the war.
It is already history that Lord Krishna was instrumented by the most Supreme
Godhead to orchestrate the Mahabharata war and it was the Pandavas faith in
Lord Krishna that ultimately proved them victorious.
Faith in God is
very essential in a life which we know is not always a bed of roses. Devotion
and faith in the most Supreme Godhead can carry us smoothly along the various
contradictory currents of ups and downs, highs and lows and tragedies and
comedies. Faith is something which is of prime importance and significance to
set the boat of our life sailing in an ocean of tests and trials no matter how
challenging the torrents of the heavy sea and the thunderstorms and the
lightenings are. Your faith in God shall
grow even more stronger like a bulletproof vest and no matter how many bullets
are showered onto your vest in the form of tests and trials, you shall always
remain staunch with your devotion, faith and love towards God if you learn to
tag along with the Infinite Will positively. The only thing of the most prime
value to stick with your devotion, love and faith towards God and make it grow
even more stronger is being ever responsive to His Divine Will and accepting
His Will with an equation of equanimity because human life is an interview with
God and filled with tests and trials. “May you have faith in God to set your
boat sailing calmly in the ever turbulent ocean of ups and downs, highs and lows,
happiness and sadness etc.”
(This article is the
copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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