Faith? People often equate it as faith in religion and rituals. But to me, faith is far, far away from religion. Faith starts when we accept some energy beyond our physical dimension. We at a subtle level realize that there is something beyond in intellect; something beyond what we can grasp through the five sense organs. It does not have much nexus with religion. Religion just offers some guidelines at the lowest level to orient oneself to that higher dimension. It starts from reading scriptures about people who had experiences. Initially our mind will deny their reality and say that they are just fiction. Then similar experiences gets into us and we slowly believe that there is a possibility of such an experience. Then we start practicing and start seeking it and mostly fails and fall back many times. Life's experiences takes us more and more inward and slowly the experience start inside us also. Then by the grace of the divine, we fall in that notch of divine orientation and finally merge into that as a water droplet merge into ocean.
If faith stays at the level of concepts and scriptural knowledge without experiences, it can fall like a deck of cards in wind. Faith has to become part of you. Then you have elevated yourself.
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