Belief and Faith

Aum Sairam

The activity of God is everywhere and always present, but it is visible only to the eye of faith. All creatures live in the hands of God. By our senses we can see only the action of the creature, but faith sees the creator acting in all things. The actions of created beings are veils which hide the profound mysteries of the workings of God. There is never a moment when Sri Sai does not come forward in the guise of some suffering or some duty, and all that takes place within us, around us and through us both includes and hides his activity. Yet, because it is invisible, we are always taken by surprise and do not recognize His operation until it has passed by us. If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, Sri Sai would endlessly reveal himself to us and we should see and rejoice in his active presence in all that befalls us.

It is faith which interprets Sri Sai for us. Without its light we should not even know that Sri Sai was speaking, but would hear only the confused, meaningless babble of creatures.

Faith transforms the earth into paradise. By it our hearts are raised with joy of our nearness to heaven.

Faith is our light in this life

Faith unlocks Sri Sai's treasury. It is the key to all the vastness of his wisdom.

Faith tears aside the veil so that we can see the everlasting truth.

There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us Sri Sai in all created things. All that is dark becomes light, and what is bitter sweet.

Faith transforms ugliness into beauty, and malice into kindness.

Faith is the mother of tenderness, trust and joy. It cannot feel anything but love and pity for its enemies, by whom it is so greatly enriched, for the harsher the actions of creatures against us, the more beneficial Sri Sai makes them for our souls.

Faith cannot doubt that if we leave everything to God, he will do all that is necessary. The more unreliable, disgusted, despairing and unsure of them our senses are, the more emphatically does faith exclaim: "God is here! All goes well!"

There is nothing that faith cannot overcome.

Faith pierces through the darkest shadows and the thickest clouds to reach the truth, embraces it and can never be torn from it.
Such faith is what Sri Sai wanted all of us to have. Let us all have true faith in our hearts and treat everyone with love.

There is a season for everything.
A time for love, and a time for peace.

Allah Malik