DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
659
Arjuna, in the beginning, did not have faith in himself. He said, 'I will not fight these people, I will not murder these people.' Then the Lord said, 'You are a fool. Wake up Arjuna. You are a baby, start walking now. Wake up. Have confidence in yourself, you can do it.'
When Arjuna stood up and took the bow and arrow in his hand he saw Sri Krishna's true form, then he saw that God was working through him. He had to take the initial step himself - and that itself was God's grace though he did not know it.
In the beginning you cannot just say, 'God is doing it.' In the beginning you have to say, 'I am doing it.' But later on you will notice that some things that have happened in your life you could have done, and some things you could not have done by yourself. Then you will know that God is doing those things and not you.
Therefore our faith cometh from above, from God, and has great power. But doubting is an earthly spirit and proceedeth from the evil one and hath no strength. Have faith in God. Therefore I say unto you: What things so ever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Jesus the Christ said this; first you must believe that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. If you have no belief then that prayer will not come about. If you have faith that God will give, He will give.
There are steps to faith. First you believe in a thing. Then you reason it out. And then you find it happening. When you get this knowledge then later on you have the faith that it must happen.
So I say to you if you have no faith, say to those who have faith, 'Please reveal to me what faith is and how I can get faith.'
You need to sit and talk a little more to get faith.
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Sri
Ramakrishna, Sri
Sarada Devi, Swami
Vivekananda, Swami Nischalananda Puri, Swami Shivapadananda
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