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Chapter Fifteen Faith Can Move Mountains
Faith, called shraddha in Sanskrit, is the most important virtue to develop as the foundation of your spiritual sadhana. If you were to develop true faith, a childlike simplicity would emerge within your personality. For a child, faith is instinctive. A child is not informed about the details or complications of life, not even of the nature of his mother and father; but unconscious faith sustains the child and allows him to be completely relaxed in his home.
You too are sustained by faith in a similar manner. If you lived only by reason, trying to rationally determine where you are going in life and what each day will bring, your mind would explode in a single day. Science tells us that the earth itself is ever tumbling through the vastness of space, the whole universe is expanding, and within it there seems to be an accidental conglomeration of energy and atoms. Thinking about all this, one surely will nd it