The Conditions of an Effective Faith

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In his book The Mother, Shrioro
Bindo defines the conditions and

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qualities of faith needed to
overcome all obstructions or

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disasters.
Quote to walk through life

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armoured against all fear, peril
and disaster.

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Only two things are needed.
Two that go always together.

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The grace of the Divine Mother
and on your side, an inner state

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made-up of faith, sincerity and
surrender.

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Let your faith be pure, candid
and perfect.

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An egoistic faith in the mental
and vital being tainted by

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ambition, pride, vanity, mental
arrogance, vital self will,

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personal demand, desire for the
petty satisfactions of the lower

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nature is a low and smoke
obscured flame that cannot burn

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upwards to heaven.
Regard your life as given you

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only for the Divine work and to
help in the Divine

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manifestation.
Desire nothing but the purity,

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force, light, wideness, calm,
Ananda of the Divine

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consciousness and its insistence
to transform and perfect your

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mind, life and body.
Ask for nothing but the divine,

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spiritual and supermental truth,
its realization on earth and in

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you and in all who are called
and chosen, and the conditions

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needed for its creation and its
victory over all opposing

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forces.
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The mental consciousness is
rooted in division, separation,

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and fragmentation.
It maintains doubts, questions,

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and contradictions as part of
its normal process.

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Complete faith is based in the
psychic being, not the mind.

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As long as we base our lives in
the mental consciousness, we are

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sure to experience considerable
confusion.

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When we are able to shift our
central focus to the psychic

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being, the faith becomes pure
and strong, and we can follow

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the sunlit path rather than be
constantly subject to the dark

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night of the soul.
A disciple inquires, What are

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the conditions in which there is
a descent of faith?

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The mother writes.
Quote.

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The most important condition is
an almost childlike trust, the

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candid trust of a child who is
sure that it will come, who

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doesn't even ask himself about
it.

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When he needs something, he is
sure that it is going to come.

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Well, it is this, this kind of
trust.

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This indeed is the most
important condition.

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To aspire is indispensable.
But some people aspire with such

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a conflict inside them between
faith and absence of faith,

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trust and distrust, between the
optimism which is sure of

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victory and a pessimism which
asks itself when the catastrophe

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will come.
Now if this is in the being, you

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may aspire, but you don't get
anything.

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And you say I aspired but didn't
get anything.

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It is because you demolish your
aspiration all the time by your

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lack of confidence.
But if you truly have trust,

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children, when left to
themselves and not deformed by

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older people, have such a great
trust that all will be well.

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For example, when they have a
small accident, they never think

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that this is going to be
something serious.

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They are spontaneously convinced
that it will soon be over and

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they'll this helps so powerfully
in putting an end to it.

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Well, when 1 aspires for the
force, when one asks the divine

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for help, if when asked with the
unshakable certitude that it

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will come, that it is
impossible, that it won't, then

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it is sure to come.
It is this kind.

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Yes, this is truly an inner
opening, distrustfulness.

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And some people are constantly
in this state.

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When there is something to be
received, they are always there

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to receive it.
There are others.

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When there's something to have,
a force descends.

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They are always absent, they are
always closed at that moment.

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All those who have this
childlike trust are always there

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at the right time.
And it is strange, isn't it?

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Outwardly there's no difference.
They may have exactly the same

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goodwill, the same aspiration,
the same wish to do good, but

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those who have this smiling
confidence within them do not

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question, do not ask themselves
whether they will have it or not

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have it.
Whether the Divine will answer

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or not.
The question does not arise.

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It is something understood.
What I need will be given to me.

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If I pray, I shall have an
answer.

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If I am in difficulty and ask
for help, the help will come,

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and not only will it come, but
it will manage everything.

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If the trust is there,
spontaneous, candid,

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unquestioning, it works better
than anything else, and the

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results are marvelous.
It is with the contradictions

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and doubts of the mind that one
spoils everything.

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With this kind of notion, which
comes when 1 is in difficulties.

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Oh, it's impossible, I shall
never manage it.

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And if it is going to be
aggravated, if this condition I

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am in, which I don't want, is
going to grow still worse if I

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continue to slide down farther
and farther, If, if, if, if like

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that.
And one builds a wall between

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oneself and the Force One wants
to receive.

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The psychic being has this
trust, has it wonderfully

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without a shadow, without an
argument, without a

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contradiction.
And when it is like that, there

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is not a prayer which does not
get an answer, no aspiration

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which is not realized.
End Quote.

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Reference.
Srioro Bindu and the Mother

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Powers Within, Chapter 6, Faith,
pages 61 to 62.