Brother H - forgive me for revisiting some of the stuff already discussed on other threads. I thought Ishna Ji may find it useful to make sense of loose ends.
Ishna Ji
"Faith is to believe what you do not see, the reward of this faith is to see what you believe, especially @ AV" Chaz Singh.
Consider the following:
A King wanted to know what truth was; an elephant was produced into the King's Court along with seven blind men. Asked to describe the animal, each one's perspective varied, based on which feature was close at hand, the slender rope like tail, the mighty tree-like legs, the twisting snake-like trunk, and so forth. Each man's version was wrong, but each one of the men possessed an element of the more complex elephantine truth.
And, so is "sat" - the elephantine in all - just need to have a feel for it.
Our beliefs come in many shapes and sizes, from the trivial, "I believe it will rain today" to the more profound, "I believe in God". Taken together they form a personal guidebook to reality, telling us not just what is factually correct but also what is right n good, and hence how to behave towards one another. One of the long-standing problems with studying beliefs is identifying exactly what we are trying to understand. The general consensus amongst the academia crowd is that belief is a bit like knowledge, but more personal. Knowing something is true is different from believing it to be true; as a result, knowledge is objective and belief is subjective. And, it is the faith of the individual that constitutes belief.
Thank you for allowing me the time n space to have a say.
