Faith and related terms

Faith : A dynamic entire belief and acceptance. Faith is a feeling in the whole being. Faith is a certitude without any proof

Faith is a thing that precedes knowledge, not comes after knowledge. It’s a glimpse of a truth which the mind has not yet seized as knowledge(direct spiritual knowledge ;not mental knowledge)

Belief : Intellectual acceptance only. Belief is something that occurs in the head, that is purely mental

Conviction : intellectual belief held on what seems to be good reasons

Reliance : Dependence on another for something ,based on trust

Trust : the feeling of sure expectation of another’s help and reliance on his word, character etc

Confidence : the sense of security that goes with trust

One can have confidence in life, trust in the divine ,trust in one's own destiny,that is ,one has the feeling that everything is going to help him, to do what he wants to do.

ASPIRATION and DESIRE

Just got a hang of the two poignant words used commonly in our day to day living.

MENTAL ASPIRATION : A mental aspiration means that the thought-power aspires to have knowledge ,for instance,to have the power to express itself well or have clear ideas ,a logical reasoning

One may aspire for many things ;that all the capacities of the mind may be developed and placed at the service of the divine.This is a mental aspiration

VITAL ASPIRATION : You may have an aspiration of the vital. If you have desires or troubles, storms ,inner difficulties, you may aspire for peace, to be quite impartial, without desires or preferences, at the divine’s disposal. This is a vital aspiration

PHYSICAL ASPIRATION : You may have a physical aspiration also ;that the body may feel the need to acquire a kind of equipoise in which all the parts of the being will be well balanced and that you may have the power to hold off illnesses at a distance or overcome it fast when it enters trickily and that the body may always function normally ,harmoniously ,in perfect health. That is a physical aspiration

SPIRITUAL ASPIRATION : A spiritual aspiration means having an intense need to unite with the divine, to give oneself totally to the divine, not to live outside the divines consciousness so that the divine may be everything for you in your integral being ,and you feel the need of constant communion with Him, of the sense of his presence ,of his guidance in all that you do. There is a complete harmonizing all the movements of the being. That is spiritual aspiration

DESIRE  AND ASPIRATION : When you have experienced both , you can make the real distinction

In aspiration there is what I may call an unselfish flame which is not present in desire.

Your aspiration is not a turning back upon self…desire is always a turning back upon oneself.

From purely the psychological point of view ,aspiration is self giving always, while desire is always something which one draws to oneself.

Aspiration is something which gives itself, not necessarily in the form of a thought but in the movement, in the vibration or in the vital impulse.

The essential difference b/w the love in aspiration and love in desire is that love in aspiration gives itself entirely and asks nothing in return---it doesn’t claim anything;

Whereas love in desire gives itself as little as possible ,asks as much as possible ,it pulls things to itself and always makes demand..

Desire is a vital movement ,aspiration is a psychic movement

When one has had a true aspiration ,unselfish and sincere ,one cannot ask the question anymore;for the vibration of aspiration ,luminous and calm ,has nothing to do with the vibration of desire ,which is passionate ,dark and often violent..