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First edition| 11.2023
Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s guidance to the disciples on Faith and its importance in Yoga.
The peculiar character of our age is the divorce, says Sri Aurobindo, that has been pronounced between reason and faith, the logical mind and the intuitive heart. At first, the declaration of war between them was attended by painful struggles, a faith disturbed or a scepticism dissatisfied. But now their divorce has created exaggerated tendencies which impoverish human life by their mutual exclusiveness, on the one side a negative and destructive critical spirit, on the other an imaginative sentiment which opposes pure instinct and a faith founded on dreams to the sterile fanaticism of the intellect. Yet a real divorce is impossible. Science could not move a step without faith and intuition and today it is growing full of dreams.
“Strive exclusively to hear the command of the Supreme Lord, and if you are perfectly sincere, He will find a way to make you hear and recognise this command with certainty.” (The Mother)
Contents
I. WORDS OF THE MOTHER
- Dynamic Faith
- What Is Faith
- The Most Important Condition – Childlike Trust
- The Second Requirement – Integral Faith
- The Third Requirement – Pure Faith
- Faith Which Can Move Mountains
- Can Faith be Increased by Personal Effort?
- Difference Between Faith and Trust
- Human Stupidity
II. WORDS OF SRI AUROBINDO
- Śraddhā
- Did You Know This?
- Mannual of Faith in Yoga
- Faith in Oneself
- Faith in the Divine Shakti and the Ishwara
- Premature Certitudes, False Finalities
- Explanation of Terms
- Utility and Necessity of Doubt
- Sceptical Mind
- Steadfast Faith of Nanak’s Disciple
- Mantric Words of Sri Aurobindo
- Absolute Faith and Trust: Surrender
