Posted: August 16, 2019

The following is a talk by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on the topic of the relationship between faith and doubt. You can hear the brief discussion on the following video:

A participant asked the following question: If a traumatic incident causes one to lose faith, at that time what is the answer? What should one do to get his or her faith back?

The 3 faiths

Never mind, as the healing happens, faith comes back immediately. You know, faith is much stronger than other things. That’s why satsang will help. Good company can help. Friends will help when faith is broken. Friends and good company can help faith to come back in life.

Faith in oneself, faith in the goodness of the people around you, and faith in the divine. These are the 3 faiths. All 3 need good company to become firm. Once it’s firm, though it may appear to have been shaken momentarily, it will bounce back.

Faith and doubt

We should always know that faith is stronger than doubt. Doubt comes to shake you, but it doesn’t really take away faith. Afterwards you say “Never mind, whatever it is, I am just going to go forward.”

That’s the real faith and it stays. Momentarily doubts may come and cloud the mind but ultimately faith wins.