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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

our upbringing which creates the chasm. But the good news is that faith can be
It is simplicity which nurtures this faith. retrieved. How can it disappear when it is
Although certain people hold onto this something the Divine has instilled in each
attribute of faith, for most, their faith gets one of us? It just gets concealed, that’s all. It
lost and embedded within layer upon just gets buried beneath the rubble that the
layer of mental complications. The Mother ego and mind have left behind. This debris is
comments on this: caused by a constant tussle of them dealing
with impacts from outside. This is when
“I don’t say that a highly cultured man can’t we need to summon all our courage and
have faith, but it is more difficult, for there is make our leap. Sometimes a single action
always this mental element which contradicts, will define it. This is why it so often arrives
discusses, tries to understand, which is difficult through surrender. Self-giving inspires faith
to convince, which wants proofs. His faith is and faith propels our surrender. It confers
less pure (1).” an indelible link with the psychic presence.

So the problem comes from our conditioning. Conscious mastery
From birth we are impacted by countless
impressions and influences from our We can’t turn back the clock but what used
surrounding environment. When we are to be a totally natural relation with our
young we are like sponges that absorb health can be replaced, through yoga, by an
everything that interacts from outside. Our authentic and conscious mastery. The irony
faith gets eroded by this attritional pressure. is that we recapture our youth when we do
Eventually the sponge gets so weighed down this. Life no longer remains stagnant. We
we forget who we truly are. We identify may even become simpler. We are aligning
with the influences not ourselves. It is our to the dynamic evolutionary thrust. It infuses
ego-nature which soaks up these vibrations the infinite joy of being alive. At last we have
and so we move into a zone of duality and a purpose! At last we have the stamina to
separate from our soul. We lose ourselves see the course through to the very end!
in the morass of the world outside; we lose
identity with the Self and so lose our faith.
The natural affinity with the soul disappears.
Quite apart from anything else, we lose
control of our health and well-being.

For protection, we wrap ourselves inside
mental sheath after mental sheath. We
believe that we need it for armour but with
this armour, we lose our greatest strength.
Indeed we become very brittle. This mental
bias casts a huge grey and sombre shadow
over all our being.

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