Faith implies that there is something we call as the Divine and hence there is a hidden divine guidance in life carrying us through everything. Faith gives us the certitude that the Divine exists, even if everything in the world contradicts his presence. Faith also implies trust in the Divine, that He is not only there as an impersonal Reality but as someone who listens to us, who understands us, someone on whom we can depend and rely upon. Faith becomes complete when along with trust we also have the confidence that the Divine can pull us out of every difficulty and seemingly impossible situation. It is the hope of the hopeless, the shelter and refuge of the helpless.
Faith is the light of the soul given as a gift to us to navigate our journey. But our mind, vital and the physical consciousness obscure this light by throwing doubts, impatience, calculation and bargain. Complete faith that all will be for the good even though it may not immediately seem so means that the power of faith has influenced the mind, vital and the physical consciousness.
Faith is blind by its very nature, else it is not faith but reasoned inference or a bargaining acceptance as long as things happen which our ego and desires wanted. But faith persists and continues even when everything in our life is going in the opposite direction.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
