FAITH IN GOD & ONESELF: –

“One of the most important qualifications for the aspirant is faith. There are three kinds of faith: (i) faith in ONESELF, (ii) faith in the GOD and (iii) faith in LIFE. Faith is so indispensable to life that unless it is present in some de- gree, life itself would be impossible. It is because of faith that cooperative and social life becomes possible. It is faith in each other that facilitates a free give and take of love, a free sharing of work and its results. When life is burdened with unjustified fear of one another it becomes cramped and restricted….Faith in GOD becomes all-important because it nourishes and sustains faith in one- self and faith in life in the very teeth of set-backs and failures, handicaps and difficulties, limitations and failings. Life, as man knows it in himself, or in most of his fellow-men, may be narrow, twisted and perverse, but life as he sees it in GOD is unlimited, pure and untainted. In GOD, man sees his own ideal realized; GOD is what his own deeper self would rather be. He sees in the GOD the reflection of the best in himself which is yet to be, but which he will surely one day attain. Faith in GOD therefore becomes the chief motive-power for realizing the divinity which is latent in man.