Q1. What is “a will to be”?
‘Will to be’ is the inbuilt urge within each creature. It is this deepest urge that pushes us and, if we do not heed it, we are unhappy even if outwardly we are in the midst of plenty.
In simple words, we pursue an aim even though we do not know whether it will lead to success or not; in fact, even if it leads to inevitable failure and death, because of this will to be supported by the faith that it is worth all the effort itself regardless of the result.
Q2. What is the Relationship between the soul and faith? The soul is made of faith and faith is made of soul; how could both the statements be true ?
Faith is the light in the soul
– This only be true if there is a continuous process of becoming; the seed has a will to be, but that will is the seed itself. I’m not completely getting it; please explain.
The soul is like a seed that holds within it already the blueprint of its future. It is like a divine programming or the genetic code within a cell. It will eventually become that through all the events and circumstances of life. Just as we can say that the essence of a cell is its DNA and the DNA itself is the cell in its core, or as the Light and the source of Light is one in a sense so too the soul and the faith that drives it to unfold are one. Without this faith which is the invisible guiding light, the soul would be an inert presence, a seed without the nucleus.
Q3. Implications on pragmatism.
Pragmatism is very simply a philosophy that only that which can be practically realised is true. All the rest is theory. So the parallel here is that indeed a man will end up realising what he steadily has faith in.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
