Let Life Flow by Ramesh Balsekar

Author:Ramesh Balsekar [Balsekar, Ramesh]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Yogi Impressions
Published: 2012-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

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Faith in God

It would seem that ‘faith’ is a combination of belief and trust, resulting in unshakeable acceptance. On this basis, there can never be a loss of faith. If I have faith in God, such faith cannot depend upon my interpretation of what happens. If my faith in God depends upon God doing whatever I want at any time, it really cannot be called ‘faith’ – it may be ‘hope’ in God. True faith in God can only mean my unshakeable acceptance of whatever happens at any time as something that could not have not happened at that time and place.

I want something that I know is not unjustified; I worked hard for something and I should get an adequate result. If I do get what I think I deserved, then is it an indication of my faith in God? If I do not get what I think I deserve, should I lose my faith in God? True faith in God can only be based on the absolute acceptance of the concept “Thy Will be done.” If what I wanted did not happen, I can only interpret that it was not God’s Will that I should get what I wanted at that time. But the more important content of my faith in God is the fact that I really cannot know whether what I wanted at the time was really good for me or not in the long run. Therefore, my faith in God enables me to accept whatever happens at any time as something that simply had to happen according to a cosmic law, the basis of which cannot ever be known by the mere mortal with his very limited knowledge and intellect. As Neils Bohr explained to Albert Einstein, “We think God plays dice with the universe because we do not have the full information which God has about the universe.” In other words, the human intellect can envisage a very limited vision, while God’s vision covers all space into eternity.

There are many agnostics whose ‘no belief’ is a rather vague proposition. But then, there are atheists who simply do not accept the principle of the existence of a God. What the atheists do not accept is a particular concept of God: God as a rigid taskmaster, an exaggerated version of one’s boss, or an uncompromising moralist with an account book for noting down everybody’s sins. Actually, there is nothing really blasphemous in the rejection of God because what they reject is an absurd concept of God.

It would be ridiculous not to accept the idea of ‘God’ asthe One Source from which the entire manifestation has emerged. The alternative would be that the manifestation occurred as an accident. The result of an accidental creation would necessarily be chaos. But the universe as it exists is far from being chaotic. Therefore, the concept of an accidental creation would only be a matter of cussedness or perversion.

It is astonishing to what extent the concept of ‘faith in God’ can be corrupted.

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