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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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