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Insight

“Finally it is Faith that cures”*

James Anderson

Abstract
Faith is something innate to us, but it is what we relinquish through our conditioning. Faith is a
certitude which, over time, is ceded and must be retrieved. What was once a natural connection
must be made conscious through yoga. For the work of transformation, faith must eventually be
implanted into each one of our cells.

“They who have faith will go through (1).”

Faith is a seed planted deep within us. It is
something very natural to the soul. It goes as
deep as this entity and it is not only humans
who possess it. It is something very simple;
indeed it is an absolute because true faith
amounts to certitude. Faith is what holds
us all together.

One might imagine that one graduates up
to faith by the rungs of mental belief and In a sense we have to begin again. We
eventually conviction. But it doesn’t quite have to retrieve the spontaneous faith and
work like that. We can climb to the top of trust we possessed when we were a young
this ladder of mental resolution through child. What is missing? The truth is that
quietude but there will be a vastness which we have lost that natural connection with
separates us still from faith. the psychic presence. The child can’t claim
to be fully conscious but the connection
Sooner or later we have to make a leap. How is very clear and natural. It is something
can we recapture our faith? implanted in everyone at birth and it is

*The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 15. 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
nd
Ashram Trust; 2004, p. 159.

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