The Weight of Belief
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Do you have thoughts or opinions on this matter...
I often hear , ' I don't believe ...', 'we don't believe that ...' ' In our religion we do not believe....' or 'I believe in ____________ ' , 'It's my belief...'.
What of belief ? Does it make it so? Isn't belief just a point of view or an affirmation of what one holds important or true but has not substantiated it for one's self? It ( the belief) may have nothing to do with what Reality really is, what Truth really is.
Let me explain this POV and it's implication as I see it. I get into an elevator. I believe ( without looking at the control board) that the elevator is going to the 10th floor. Lets say is does go to the 10th floor and my 'belief' is confirmed ' See - told ya we arrived at the 10th floor.'
Now I say I believe the elevator is going to the 3rd floor, only this time it arrives on the 5th floor. My belief had no effect on the elevator's position.
Personal belief without a foundation is just a point of view, conjecture, opinion. It carries little weight but is frequently at one's disposal for a conversation. This is neither good or bad, but consider this. What of going though life with one's beliefs that are ungrounded ? Riding in the elevator hoping to arrive on the 5th floor but constantly ending up on the 12th floor.
So now one looks at the control board and without hesitation one can say we will arrive on the 5th floor. It happens. We will arrive on the 14th floor, and it happens. The person is plugged in to the intelligence of the system.
Like that, when it comes to Life and all the diversity, the 'control board' is pure awareness, pure intelligence. The more we contact this field of pure possibility the more we infuse this intelligence into us and are able to 'see' how things work - the Reality of life.
So , if we ask ( to take the idea of the control board analogy a bit further) where is the manual for this elevator, this control board? How to understand the circuitry of how this works? This would be the ved , the āgama-s , the śāstra-s - they are manuals out how the elevator operates.
And when one is in tune with the 'physics' behind the elevator's workings then one is (perfectly) aligned with their dharma and universal dharma. Then 'belief' is no more and personal experience of Reality unfolds . One becomes an exponent, an ambassador of truth.
praṇām
यतसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤µà¤‚ शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṠśivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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