Faith is a very important thing in our lives. We all have faith in something, someone, somewhere, which takes various shapes and guides us through the good times and bad.
Faith transforms into good luck, confidence, ability, timing, methods and people – when we need them most. It creates a positive energy inside our souls and directs on a path of success and happiness.
When we are born, being toddlers we place lot of faith in our parents – who in turn nurture us and teach us some of the very basics of living. When a child starts crawling, walking – he always tend to take steps towards his parents or elders in the house who show special affection to him – it is nothing but a translation of his faith that makes him take those first steps.
As we grow, we place tremendous faith in our teachers / mentors – to provide us the right mentoring and guidance so that we can shape up our future. Many a times, our initial personality is a mere reflection of our parents, teachers whom we trust and open our souls for learning, listening.
In later stages of life, faith is driven from our own judgement system, ability to make a decision in a conflicting situation. It is basically one’s faith on oneself – which comes out as confidence to others.
It is not static or fixed – I don’t think we can fully define faith without understanding the dynamics nature of it. The way it transforms, corrects and reflects based on experiences ( both positive & negative) of life. We tend to draw faith from new things, new people and new circumstances all the time. When they all work out in our favor, it leads to happiness and success and when it doesn't then it is questioned and mostly it transforms to something else over time. This constant movement of faith makes it one of the most long lasting attributes of life.
I was speaking with my mother today – she was down with Shingles few weeks back, still not back to her 100%, struggling physically to complete her day to day stuff. And she has a huge challenge ahead of her. Between tomorrow and Sunday, she would be fasting for the supreme difficult “ chath puja” – offering to the SUN God. She has been doing that for over 35 years and her faith is what is driving her this time around as well. Her whole body language, tone and strength levels have changed dramatically in last 24 hours. She has tremendous faith in this puja and she wants to make sure she completes it with all the proper rituals and customs as she has been doing it for last 35 years. That immovable faith on GOD is driving new energy levels in her. And this is not the first time I am seeing her take this enormous challenge – in past too, whenever she was down near the “chath puja” for different reasons, but during these 3-4 days, she comes out stronger, confident and has been able to complete the puja with ease.
I have always wondered, what drives this change in her -- its nothing but her faith in the GOD and the puja, which fills her with all the needed energy to overcome the tough routine of not even drinking water for almost 3 days. She crosses the physical limits of the body and connects at a very different level to fulfill the mission.
Next couples of days are very important for her, always in her annual calendar and I wish that she will continue to draw strength from her inner self and sail though these days in the same manner as she has been doing for last 35 years.
Being the lesser mortal, I will be praying for her well being and good health, while she will be focusing on the GOD and the puja customs, giving no relevance to her physical self – that’s the difference which faith brings into us.
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