The Whole game is based on faith
- Ram Dass
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min read
FAITH Sub ek
The whole game is based on faith. Faith comes through grace.
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Without faith, the existential fears and uncertainties that we all have dominate. If you have faith, you have no fear. If you don’t have faith, you fear.
As I questioned my own faith after the stroke, I began to ask, “Faith in what?” I found that my faith is in the One—not faith in Maharaj-ji as a person, but faith in him as a doorway to the One, faith in the One in Maharaj-ji. Oneness is a state of being. Again, this is the state where, as the great South Indian saint Ramana Maharshi said, “God, guru, and Self are one.” Maharaj-ji simply held up one finger and said, “Sub ek”—it’s all One.
Faith is the reflection of that oneness in the mirror of your soul. “Faith is the way you connect to that universal truth of oneness. Faith and love are intimately entwined. As it says in the Rāmayana, without devotion, there is no faith; without faith, there is no devotion.
Faith is not a belief. Beliefs are in the head. Faith is in the heart. Faith comes from within you. You cultivate it by opening your spiritual heart and quieting your mind until you feel your identity with your deeper Self. That opening to the deeper Self, when you have quieted your mind. comes through grace. The qualities of that Self are peace, joy, compassion, wisdom, and love.
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