A Question of Faith

The brakes are going to work on your bike when you need them. It's ok to cross the road when the green man is on. The supermarket will have food when you go shopping. The Sun comes up in the morning and sets in the evening.

We have faith in so many things in our day to day life, at times that faith is automatic, almost blind. The trust we have in our experiences enhances that faith we have in all of our material arrangements. Yet what happens when our faith is put into question? Generally our faith in the material energy to do what we want, to make us happy is so strong that even when given the biggest challenge we find our trust in the material unflinching and unshakable, sometimes against all logic.

If we stop and examine our faith in the material energy for a moment we find it is ill placed. so many times we have been let down. If we look around us the material gives us no guarantees that our faith will be rewarded and often its not. Material energy is indeed a cruel mistress to put our faith in.

This raises the question of how has our faith developed and what prompts our faith and gives it strength. Is our faith is just based on sentiment? A fiction, a deep routed illusion sold to us en-mass?

The Krishna Conscious perspective gives an explanation.

Krishna states in the 17th Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita "...according to one's existence under the various modes of nature, one evolves a particular kind of faith. The living being is said to be of a particular faith according to the modes he has acquired." So everyone has a particular type of faith, regardless of what he is. but his faith is considered according to the nature or personality traits he has acquired. Then according to the particular type of faith that we have, we then associate with like minded persons who support our acquired faith. which then increases and we become more and more entangled in the material web of illusion. We become conditioned.

The Bhagavad Gita continues to explain that the resultant artificial condition of life brought about by this illusory faith is only temporary and acts performed whist under this conditional platform of life yield only impermanent, material results. However if one acts on the platform of transcendence, the heart quickly becomes directed, once again, towards our original unconditioned spiritual position.

 

Urban meditation: A Question of Faith

@ Cafe Atma

Wednesday 27th February

6.30pm - 8pm £5 inc. veggie meal

 

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