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elements are needed to make spiritual progress: great faith, great doubt and great perseverance. Faith is required to discover and trust the inherent truth of teaching; doubt to challenge and overcome superficial understanding; and perseverance to continue despite distracting hopes and fears. In recognizing the complexities and hardships of a spiritual path, our religions and beliefs also celebrate the enduring human determination to overcome them exhibited by many saints and seers.
Rev.Babuji Maharaj states that there should be faith in oneself, in the method chosen to be followed and in the Goal itself. Faith in our capacity to achieve the goal is fully developed only when we understand our true nature as pure and simple unalloyed consciousness. This is not had for the asking or imagining the same nor is just a matter of confidence. It is sincere and assiduous Sadhana alone that leads to this conclusion about our true nature. Further it is only then the faith in the method develops as it is purely spiritual rid off all the
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