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know during meditations that the act of leaping by itself is not sufficient and that demands a conviction that is strong enough to enable us to remain out in the deep abyss still persevering with the faith. Faith as I have always been saying is belief under circumstances that are impossible.
In contrast to the Christian and Islam, the faith of many Eastern beliefs is less focused on divine textual authority. It should be noted that the Vedas is not book and is something that is passed on for several generations by word of mouth until it was written and published. They are apourusheya. Even in the Buddhist cannons it is held that they merely point to the Moon thus indicating that truth can only come from personal experience. In Hinduism, the spiritual goal of moksha, or liberation from the cycle of rebirth, may be pursued through the paths of knowledge, action or devotion and Yoga. It is the spiritual evolution that a person has when he develops the knowledge of interdependency through Viveka, Vairagya, avinabhava sambhanda and
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