Keeping Faith

Another follow up on the two articles written on the “Universal art of beading a necklace” and “Carrot and Stick”. A colleague of mine mentioned to me that it is difficult to keep faith as in the current age of internet and technology truth and information have become bigger and therefore faith is losing out. Although I agreed with him but still tend to disagree somewhat and hope that by the time I finish writing this I will be able to make up my mind and that of a few others.

I still think Faith is bigger than truth for the simple reason that truth has its limits. There is nothing beyond truth but faith does not have any boundaries except within your own mind. And anyway, truth is never absolute and final. It is always relative to our previous position and based on our incomplete knowledge at times. More often than not, people are hurt more when their faith/trust placed in someone else is broken than in the (un)truth itself. Lying for a reason is accepted somewhat but deception is still a big sin. This has been captured symbolically in the historical Shakespearean play of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar who was stabbed by his own senators was still standing tall despite being stabbed several times. But when his most trusted friend Brutus stabbed him he collapsed from shock. Captured in those famous historical Casear’s last words…”Et tu Brutus ?.... then fall Caesar”. The greatest emperor of all times in our history fell down because he had his faith in his friend broken. He would have died anyway but just underscores the point that we still like reading stories of faith and trust.

If today it was proven that God does not exist, then despite that “truth” millions will still keep their faith in God. Most of the time people lose their faith on events that may happen in their lives because they try and work out things themselves (possibly due to lack of patience). And because we are mortals with limited capabilities, we cannot see how the road to our destination can be built and give up on faith creating a self doubt that things may not work out and break the faith ourselves. For faith to be kept, there should not be any self doubt. Which will not be there if the faith is strong. So the best thing is to leave things to God and Universe to work out how the road has to be built so that you get the destiny you want. Because then the Universe only has your faith to work with and has to build the road to the destiny you want and in the manner you want. Self doubt creates shifts amongst several destinies and we may end up with something less that what we want or we still get there but not in the manner we wanted to. Our thoughts create vibrations and are picked up and create/interfere with future events as they are being created (or do they unfold?) in the astral world.

Truth is for all to see and it can be magical. Truth is knowing that a caterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly. Its nature’s magic at its best if you have seen such an event happening in slow motion. But what if, what if for a moment were we not to know that the caterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly? What if you have just the faith that the caterpillar will turn into something beautiful but not the knowledge? And keep the faith. And keep watching that stupid caterpillar. And then if it turns into a butterfly then it’s a miracle because your faith won. So what is bigger? Truth or Faith? Magic or miracle? See what I mean ?