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An Unshakable Faith · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  No matter how strongly we hold an idea or an emotional
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  attachment or even a vital desire.
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  We find that over time, any of these can be shaken disrupted or
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  even converted into its opposite.
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  The various parts of the human instrument, the body, the life
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  force, and the mind are all in constant and variable are
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  Subject to pressure to changes of circumstances, or even just
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  the maturation process of the individual as he grows, learns,
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  and expands his Horizons. The question then arises as to
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  how one can achieve an unshakable faith.
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  If that Faith depends on the stability of these instruments
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  dogmas or principles held by the Mind tend to be brittle.
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  And thus, either become fanatical in nature and thus not
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  subject to recep tivity and growth or else can be shattered.
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  When the right pressure is applied, We are all aware of
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  situations where love has turned into hatred or we're friends of
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  turned into enemies based on perceptions or circumstances the
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  challenge our faith on the objects of our love or
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  friendship. The dhammapada addresses, the
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  issue of Faith. The aphorism below refers to
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  Mara, who is the embodiment of Illusion.
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  Illusion, adheres to the external life and our
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  instruments of interacting with that life.
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  The mothers commentary on this aphorism.
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  Makes it clear that unshakable faith is not based in the mind
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  or the emotions or even a particular teaching, the faith
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  that is unshakable, is that which originates with the soul,
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  the psychic being, which holds the true purpose and
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  potentiality of the individual Quote Justice.
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  The strong wind has no hold Upon A Mighty Rock.
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  So Mara has no hold upon a man who is endowed with unshakable
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  faith and who waste not his energies and quote the
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  dhammapada the mother notes quote, what the dhammapada means
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  when it speaks of faith is not at all, the belief in, a Dogma
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  or a religion. It is not even faith, in the
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  teaching of the master. It is Faith in one's own
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  possibilities. The certitude that whatever the
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  difficulties, whatever the obstacles, whatever, the
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  imperfections, even the negations in the being one is
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  born from realization and one will realize The will must never
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  falter the effort. Must be persevering and the
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  faith unshakable then instead of spending years to realize what
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  one has to realize, when can do it in a few months, sometimes
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  even in a few days. And if there is sufficient
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  intensity in a few hours that is to say, you can take a position
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  within yourself and no bad. Well, that attacks the
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  realization We'll have any more power over you than the storm
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  has over a rock. After that, the way is no longer
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  difficult, it becomes extraordinarily interesting.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness, basic requisites
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  Pages, 43 to 44,