Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti


Perennial Psychology

Doubt and faith

In the spiritual quest and in the search for true health, it is really important to question all values. We have to personally knock at the door of truth within our heart and keep our eyes open for sensible trustworthy revelations, as we go through our natural process of accepting and rejecting, between doubt and faith. As naturally as there must be doubt there can also be faith, the opposite of doubting. Doubting has been established within the creation to help us find what we can trust in.

When we find what we can trust in, at that moment we can exercise the doubting of the doubting process as such and embrace our faith whole-heartedly. We may call this process anumana with the support of sabda. “Is there still doubt about how we can have full faith?”

The power of discrimination is God-given and faith is the crown-jewel of having properly exercised our evaluation.

Doubt and faith have accompanied us since the childhood. As a child we did not say that we trusted a certain person. We said rather or not we liked or disliked a person. If you liked someone you would go anywhere with them, despite what they might say to you. And if you did not like someone, even if it was your father or mother, you would not submit to their directions, at least internally.

Therefore OIDA-therapy increases faith and decreases doubt so that a you can search for a healthy environment of individuals, where you can happily put your full faith. Such an environment will help you to become healthier or more spiritually advanced, if you prefer to see it that way.

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