An Unshakable Faith

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No matter how strongly we hold
an idea or an emotional

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attachment or even a vital
desire.

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We find that over time, any of
these can be shaken disrupted or

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even converted into its
opposite.

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The various parts of the human
instrument, the body, the life

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force, and the mind are all in
constant and variable are

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Subject to pressure to changes
of circumstances, or even just

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the maturation process of the
individual as he grows, learns,

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and expands his Horizons.
The question then arises as to

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how one can achieve an
unshakable faith.

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If that Faith depends on the
stability of these instruments

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dogmas or principles held by the
Mind tend to be brittle.

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And thus, either become
fanatical in nature and thus not

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subject to recep tivity and
growth or else can be shattered.

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When the right pressure is
applied, We are all aware of

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situations where love has turned
into hatred or we're friends of

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turned into enemies based on
perceptions or circumstances the

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challenge our faith on the
objects of our love or

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friendship.
The dhammapada addresses, the

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issue of Faith.
The aphorism below refers to

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Mara, who is the embodiment of
Illusion.

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Illusion, adheres to the
external life and our

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instruments of interacting with
that life.

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The mothers commentary on this
aphorism.

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Makes it clear that unshakable
faith is not based in the mind

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or the emotions or even a
particular teaching, the faith

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that is unshakable, is that
which originates with the soul,

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the psychic being, which holds
the true purpose and

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potentiality of the individual
Quote Justice.

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The strong wind has no hold Upon
A Mighty Rock.

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So Mara has no hold upon a man
who is endowed with unshakable

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faith and who waste not his
energies and quote the

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dhammapada the mother notes
quote, what the dhammapada means

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when it speaks of faith is not
at all, the belief in, a Dogma

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or a religion.
It is not even faith, in the

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teaching of the master.
It is Faith in one's own

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possibilities.
The certitude that whatever the

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difficulties, whatever the
obstacles, whatever, the

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imperfections, even the
negations in the being one is

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born from realization and one
will realize The will must never

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falter the effort.
Must be persevering and the

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faith unshakable then instead of
spending years to realize what

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one has to realize, when can do
it in a few months, sometimes

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even in a few days.
And if there is sufficient

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intensity in a few hours that is
to say, you can take a position

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within yourself and no bad.
Well, that attacks the

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realization We'll have any more
power over you than the storm

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has over a rock.
After that, the way is no longer

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difficult, it becomes
extraordinarily interesting.

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness, basic requisites

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Pages, 43 to 44,