Daily Meditation: Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Faith - is a factor in inner realisation

09/28/2004

When you see the contradictions that people who claim to be believers are struggling with, you have to question their understanding of faith. What can we do to help them? If they could simply be brought to admit that they were mistaken, that they do not yet know what true faith is, this would represent some progress. Instead, they become indignant and react by telling you which religion or spiritual teaching they belong to and what they believe in. They list the prayers they recite, the ceremonies they attend, and so on. How can you doubt their faith? They are unhappy, sick, spiteful, jealous and bitter people who poison their own lives as well as those around them, yet they claim to have faith! Well, these ignorant people do not know that faith and success go together, and by success I mean victory over inner difficulties and obstacles. What they call faith is in fact only a belief, with no true foundation.