What should be done for the growth of faith in the Lord?

- Guftego - Dr. Chandrakant Mehta

- "Even if your faith is like a mustard seed, you will tell the mountain to slip from here and go there, it will go there. And there is nothing wrong with that. "

* What should be done for the growth of faith in the Lord?

* Questioner: Haresh B. Lalvani, 21, Tulsi Bungalows, Solagam, Ahmedabad-30

Faith means faith, trust, confidence and trust. Whether it is a scientist or a spiritual seeker or a devotee, it is faith that keeps him working by making him fearless. Faith is the disintegration of the idea of ​​failure.

Such faith is strengthened by believing in a special person, a Sadguru, one's own adorable gentleman. Man performs puja-prayer, vrat, aradhana etc. with the belief that his devotion, sadgurupuja or faith in religion and good deeds will help him in happiness and attainment of good deeds even in the future. This means that honestly trusting in the promises of Sadguru, Paramshakti and Satshastras is called Shraddha. Faith makes the mind happy, a kind of inner satisfaction. Faith is also essential for the acquisition of knowledge. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna prophesies to Arjuna that 'O India, Sahu's faith follows its own nature. His personality is like a man's faith. '

There are three types of faith. 1. Satvik Shraddha, 2. Majestic faith and irritable faith. According to 'Bhagavad Gomandal', Sadguru is the perfect determination of conscientious thoughtful honesty in the promise of Satshastras.

While in Sadguru and Satshastras, the thoughtless and foolish determination in the promise is irritating faith. The sattvic believer is the son of the Paramatman, while the man with the irritable faith is the son who dislikes the Paramatman. Only if there is sattvic faith in the heart can a person cross Satyadharma Roop Naiya and reach Atma Paramatma. Santatva means faith in sattvic faith and Sattva means the belief in supremacy of material happiness. Faith has a price of gratitude. Faith has the backing of confidence. While leading the unbeliever to ego. He whose intellect is dulled becomes unbelieving. The faithless intellect is crippled. If even a man who has lost his intellect maintains faith, his bed will be crossed. Of course the irrational excess of faith is wasteful because it can make a man superstitious. Shraddha is Sumati while Andhashraddha is Kumati. A man sitting in the lap of Shraddhamata can become Dhruva or Nachiketa. It was his unwavering faith in Lord Krishna that made Arjuna victorious in the battle of Mahabharata.

Dedication to God is the best way for a person to convert and strengthen his faith in God. Shraddha is the union of faith, Prayagtirtha of worldly life, in which the Bhagavad-gita of the pure spirit, the faith in the creation of Jaganniyanta and the confidence that Saraswati of God's grace will do her own good is her inspiration.

In order to strengthen one's faith in the Lord, it is necessary to become a 'foundation' and not just a demand. In addition to their faith in God, the saints have the inexhaustible power of surrender to God, which is why they shout and say, 'No one is ashamed of worshiping Hari yet,' or 'Whatever Jagadguru Dev Jagadish,' -Harta mani, being free from regret, mixes the nectar of faith in faith. The 'Navvidhan' says that if your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you will tell the mountain to slip from here and go there, it will go there. And nothing will be too bad for you. God is not acceptable to deceitful people because they seek gain in demonism instead of divinity so their devotion is only hypocrisy.

Constant consumption and remembrance of great virtues, kindness, compassion, altruism, selflessness, tolerance and restraint keep the heart pure, then faith in God will strengthen your faith. Abandonment of 'I' is the first condition to make faith in God a stepping stone to faith. Infatuation, love, lusts and work, anger, madness, etc. to avoid internal enemies will continue to increase the faith in the Lord. There is an occasion of a faithful old man saying 'God will protect'. The old woman was talking about faith in the Lord. Nashik, who lives in its neighborhood, does not like that. The old woman wakes up early and remembers God, even in bath-meditation she does not forget God. All this is not tolerated by that Nashik who loves the guest and believes in God. One day the old woman took the opportunity to go to an empty house to get firewood and the atheist closed the chain from outside.

Doshi shouted but no one listened and opened the door. He decided that it would be God's will. And kept on remembering the name of the Lord with joy, believing in God. Twenty-one days passed. The atheist opened the door to see Doshi's condition. Doshi was making garlands with joy. Seeing this, the atheist repented. Faith won and deception was defeated. The atheist also became a believer. Baiju Bawra had faith in his guru and Lord so he was able to conquer Tansen. Faithful life means faith in virtue. Life without faith is the death of faith. Swami Sivanandji has said that the faith of great men is so strong that they can turn water into ghee and sand into sugar.