Faith and reverence make a man life ever hopeful and cheerful

Faith and reverence make a man's life ever hopeful and cheerful

God is eternally true, all blissful, all powerful, all knowing, the ruler and the disinterested Friend of all. All these adjuncts do not pertain to Him as so many attributes existing apart from him. They constitute His very being, His essential character. Therefore, while bearing all these essential attributes, God is unaccountably benevolent to all living beings; for benevolence constitutes His very nature. Therefore His unaccountable Grace is eternally and uninterruptedly raining on you in an endless shower.

A course of destiny is ordained for every living being under the control of that ruler of the universe and by his power. No dispensation of that  disinterested Friend can be fraught with the least harm or evil to us. He is never liable to misconception or error nor does His power ever suffer any diminution; and this rules out the possibility of any error or flaw in His decision laying down a course of destiny for us or in its conducing to our welfare.

The fact that the benign dispensation of the Lord, who is your greatest friend and is unaccountably gracious by nature, appears unwelcome to you and makes you unhappy is mainly attributable to your ignorance, your misapprehension and the perversity of your intellect that determines what is conducive to your best interests and beatitude. His dispensation for you and every single experience that you have to undergo as a result of it is really conducive to your supreme good; for it is ordained by Him alone who, besides being eternally true, all-blissful, all-powerful and all-knowing, is friendly to you by nature.

It is due to lack of faith alone that doubting the benignity of his dispensation you remain ever unhappy and not only feel worried but resolve and endeavour to replace it with a scheme of your own, which lands you in despair, disquietude and sorrow rather than give you peace of mind and happiness, which ever remain out of sight.

If you put faith in the natural goodwill of the omnipotent Lord, you will at once derive consolation and peace of mind, which will put an end to all your miseries once for all and make you naturally happy. Then in every situation created by Him, you will continue to feel His most benignant, sweet and delightful touch. In every circumstance you will behold His most gracious, sweet and soul-reavishing smile with you unperplexed and joyful eyes. In every situation you will perceive His most benign, sweet, enchanting and transcendent, which naturally seeks your highest good; and you will be merged for ever in the ocean of divine joy.

As soon as faith appears the following will be the result. The entire gloom of disquietude and sorrow will begin to disappear in the same way as the darkness of night totally melts away even before sunrise. Therefore, the only thing you should constantly do is to cast your eyes towards His sweet and soul-captivating benevolent disposition, to focus your thought on it and incessantly persuade your mind that the all-benignant, omnipotent and omniscient Lord is unaccountably benevolent to you, so that no sin or affliction, no misconception or fear, no disquietude or sorrow can ever cross your shadow, can ever approach you.

A work which is done with reverence is characterized by enthusiasm and vivacity and is attended with success. Faith springs up from reverence and engenders reverence in its turn. Both are interdependent. But where there are faith and reverence success stands in front of the strivers.

Due to faith and reverence a man’s life remains ever hopeful and cheerful. The store of energy is ever fresh in him and he continues to be inspired by a consciousness of facility in work and is conscious of success at every step.

Faith and reverence generate a unique energy in the atmosphere, which continues to give strength to the striver and by virtue of that strength he easily attains his goal. Through a clay image of Dronacharya, a teacher of archery, and by dint of faith and reverence, Eklavaya a Bhil youth, acquired proficiency in archery which caused wonder to Arjuna, nay, to Drona himself.

He alone can attain God, who has faith in the existence and attainment of God. No true discipline can even commence without reverence. How can the mind of a sceptic apply to that pursuit? A man with a doubting mind is doomed only to fall a perish.

Without reverence earnestness with regard to Sadhna does not come and without earnestness one’s mind and senses continue to wander between diverse pursuits and sense-objects, control of one’s senses is out of the question and without sense-control success cannot be achieved.

Where there is meagre strength the letter is converted into a major strength and where there is no energy at all energy crops forth. Reverence and faith lead one to put forth unstinted effort and that brings even the impossible into the range of possibility.

There is no room for misgiving or reasoning in genuine faith and reverence. The preceptor said, “All is Brahma, there is nothing but Brahma.” The reverence and faith of the discipline accepted this as a gospel truth and engaging in the hearing of this truth, cogitation and contemplation as advised by the preceptor, the striving disciple succeeded in realizing Brahma (the Absolute). Had he been swayed by misgiving and guided by reasoning, he would not have accepted the foregoing conclusion, much less endeavoured t realize it.

Without reverence and faith a man labours under an inferiority complex and cannot avail himself of the grace of God. Therefore, develop self-confidence and repose faith in the unaccountable Grace of the omnipotent Lord, your natural and disinterested friend. As a sequel to self-confidence your faith in the grace of God as well will grow and your spiritual endeavour will be crowned with success as a matter of course through grace of God.

Faith and reverence constitute that immaculate and constant light and that great spiritual lustre kindling hope and fervour, which guides a striver through the most trying circumstances and, dispelling the gloom of all pessimistic thoughts and adverse circumstances, pushes him with a quick pace along the path of consummate success.

Faith and reverence constitute life, while irreverence and unbelief are death,—a painful death which does not take its victim by surprise but gnaws his vitals slowly. Therefore always and at all times take recourse to faith and reverence.

• Faith and reverence make a man life ever hopeful and cheerful

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