Jan 23, 2022 Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton, topic: Faith in Baba, live on Zoom

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Dear folks of Baba,

The topic: What does faith in Baba mean to you?

Baba has said, "One of the most important qualifications for the aspirant is faith. There are three kinds of faith: faith in oneself, faith in the Master, and faith in life.”

How much is your faith tied up in getting what you want in a particular situation, or are you able to accept any outcome from Baba?

How unconditional is your faith in Baba?

Baba has said, "It is faith in each other that facilitates a free give-and-take of love, a free sharing of work and its results.” How much faith do you have in your fellow beings?

Do you sometimes find that when you fall short of your Ideals that your faith in yourself is shaken or undermined?

Trusting Baba that things will go the way we want—isn't this trust in Him actually conditional? How often do you think, because I have Baba in my life, nothing “disturbing" will happen to me, and then it does. Why didn’t Baba intervene? How do you deal with that ?

Do you sometimes get a glimpse that Baba’s loving wisdom is behind everything that happens?

Do you have an overarching faith that Baba is in charge and that all is for the best, and yet sometimes have doubts about everyday situations?

Does your faith in life waver when you see those who behave unjustly seemingly get away with it?

A child is praying for a sunny day for his championship baseball game while at the same time a farmer nearby is praying for rain to save his dying corn crop. Whose prayers should Baba answer?

Can we, or should we, ask Baba for things or should we have complete faith that Baba will provide? What have the mandali said about this?

Was there something you prayed for fervently and didn’t get, and years later you found that you were actually being protected by Baba?.

These profound words of Albert Einstein, written right after World War II, are worth pondering even today:

“I think the most important question facing humanity is: ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves. For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly, and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process. If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially ‘playing dice with the universe’, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice, and our lives have no real purpose or meaning. But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding the universe. Because power and safety will come through undertanding its workings and its motives. God does not play dice with the universe.”

In His love, Jeff

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