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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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