In this Weekly Wisdom, Gurudev explores how the human heart perceives both energy and faith on the level of feeling, rather than through the intellect.
In response to questions about energy and faith, Gurudev shared the following insights:
The nature of energy
If energy is just vibration, how can it be categorized as positive or negative? Is it just our perception? Please could you explain?
On one level, yes, energy is just energy. There’s no positive or negative. But if you’re an electrician, you know there are two lines. Any simple person would know that in a battery there are two poles,
In your flashlight, if you put the positive to the negative and the negative to the positive, it doesn’t work. You have to connect your cells correctly in your flashlight or any other instrument, don’t you? So both are true.
In the ultimate sense, energy is just energy. There’s no positive or negative, but one step below that, you can feel that something is different.
In its very feeling, you find that some energy is positive and some is negative.
The nature of faith
How do we ensure that we place our faith in the right people?
When you have clarity in mind, this starts happening. First, you should believe in yourself. When you believe in yourself, then you can have faith in others.
If your faith is only through some miracles and external glamor, it’s not going to stick. But if you listen to your heart, the heart says “See, this is the right thing.”
Your mind gets charmed by various external things. If your faith is based on just external glamor or verbal jugglery, or such talents, that’s one thing. That’s a different thing.
But when you listen to your heart, your heart says something different. You become sensitive to what is true, real, and genuine. Then, your heart moves in that direction. Then, the faith comes there without any effort. You don’t have to place your faith at all.
If you try to get rid of faith, that’s difficult. If you see that you have faith in the right place, and you try to get rid of it, it becomes difficult. It doesn’t work.
So faith isn’t something that you intellectually decide and keep. It’s a little beyond that. Your gut feeling, your heart, puts the faith there.
For example, if you believe in somebody, try to doubt them. The more you try to doubt them, your effort to doubt and discard your trust becomes almost futile. Your mind comes up with all that stuff and you realize, “No, it’s not like that.”
It’s just the quality of our own being, our life, that determines how much faith we have. The stronger our being, the stronger the faith is.
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