Faith Over Fear

So the difference between now what we understand and how we live moment to moment is the faith in which we have to deepen. Are you getting that point? You see, so there's an understanding, intellectual, based on some insight. You see, there's an understanding. Now, that understanding turns more and more into faith. You see, and just like when you get off the couch, you don't have to worry whether the ground will hold me or it'll be stable. You know the ground will be stable. You see? So that then becomes—you don't have to rely on thought or conceptual understanding. You just live in that faith. You see?

So, that gap, you see, it gets filled up the more time you spend in the presence of the truth or in the presence of God, whatever term you want to use. So the lawyer for Maya will not like that. The one sitting in your head will not like that. Now, strangely—can we go a little forward on this?—strangely, when we forget who we really are, which is that Atma, you see, then our posture becomes strangely... huh? We become the opposite. "I am doing this, I will do this, I want to do this, I don't want to have this," like that.

But when we don't forget who we are—we remember who we are, either the favorite child of God or that itself—then our posture becomes open, receptive. That openness is a very big thing because we feel that this posture is fearful, but this posture is fearless because you're open, allowing everything to come. This is just an outer position in the world like that because you're actually very scared of looking within yourself. You see, so you just want to create—we just want to create this semblance of outer control so that we never have to look at who is really in charge.

That is why it is the most fearful people, the most fearful ones who are not able to sit with themselves for the slightest amount of time, who in the outer are very like controlling, because that gives them the sense of false control. As you learn to let go and let God, see, let go and let God, then that needs the courage of faith. So a lot of times we don't talk about this aspect, but what you're hearing in Satsang can be very scary for you and resistance is a response to that. You see, so our resistance comes, but actually what are we scared of? Just to offer ourselves fully in love or to offer ourselves fully in the search of truth, the search of true insight, not relying on any preconceived idea. That needs courage. So that courage is rare.