Faith says you know, you just know, that you are protected, that worst case scenarios will not manifest, that you can live without the constraints of fear, anxiety and stress.

At times faith may relate to experience and be ‘time-tested,’ if you will. If the Divine has emerged into your life consciously and saved you or profoundly inspired you several times, perhaps having faith is easier for you to touch.

Faith depends not on opinions, analyses, points of view, perspectives— if practiced ‘faithfully.” It looks down on all of these not with disdain, but with compassion and love, actually.

Faith is to believe in what we do not see and the reward is to see what we believe —and feel beautifully overwhelmed and humbled at the same time.

It is not sleight of hand or magic in the classical sense. It is, for example, doing Mantra with the resolution and realisation that what you say is perfect and not necessarily or likely a product of your intellect.

In short, it is Faith revealed and unabashed.

Grace and Faith seem to work with each other creating and supporting the often ever so slight (but sometimes great and intense) bending of the Law of Karma in our favor, to our benefit.

Yet, “Ye of little faith,” Jesus addressed his followers more than once.

One commentator wrote:

“What does ‘ye of little faith’ mean? Simply

put, it means that at this moment in time your faith has been tested and you have come up short. Ouch! That must have been devastating to hear, yet Jesus said it.”

At times that I forget who I truly am, it is not surprising that my faith will suffer. As ‘Who am I,’ is the crux of Swadhyaya and as Swadhyaya is a 24- hour job—interrupted only by the moment we meet our Maker—the more I know who I am, the more likely I will increase my ‘faith quotient.’

If ever in our lifetimes there has come a time to test our resilience, faith and commitment to everything having to do with happiness, health, holiness, and survival—for ourselves and others, NOW IS THAT TIME.

Faith in oneself is important here. As we are born in the image of God, then faith in ourselves has its place. Call it self-esteem or positive self-consciousness or self-image, or whatever. It is our Higher Selves which we want to get in touch with and stay in touch with as much as possible.

Significantly, faith or so-called faith, can be misunderstood or handled poorly. If one believes, “God heals all,” that does not relieve us from still exerting maximum effort and practice healthy dietary regimens, exercise and sleep patterns, for example.

We should not “test the Divine,” by sitting down and not doing our part. When “Let go, let God,” is chanted, it means we should act in consonance with will of the Divine as in IDAM NA MAMA—not my will but Thy will be done.

One of the more beautiful aspects of Homa Psychotherapy is its reliance on daily sunrise/sunset Agnihotra copper pyramid healing fire as an indispensable tool by which our faith in the Divine and in our Selves manifests, evolves and unfolds.

“Everything that was sent
to break you
was actually waking you up
to your own light.
You’re going to shine brighter
than ever before.”

-The Universe-