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something about Vedanta or ‘Shat Sampathi’, know that the fifth of the ‘Shat Sampathi’ is ‘Shraddha’. What is the ‘Shraddha’ about? Why is it coming at the fifth level, not at the beginning? In the beginning you should have confidence in you but then that develops later into ‘Mahaviswasa’ in God. Mahaviswasa is a stage that comes after Anukoolasya Sankalpa Pratikoolasya Varjanam, Goptrutva Varanam and Atmanikshepam. This is not the first faith. The Mahaviswasa that comes here is of a different order than the ‘Faith’ in beginning that we have got in beginning in ourselves. This ‘Maha Viswasa’ comes to you when you know that your Master is capable of doing everything for you, there is nothing that is beyond Him, a thing that comes to our experience. Anything that is happening to you, you know is due to Him. It is because of Him I live, because of Him I breath, because of Him I move. Finally you say I move in Him, I breath in Him. This is the stage to which you come. That is the ‘Maha Viswasa’. ‘Mahaviswasa’ should not be confused with ordinary faith. Faith you and I have in the beginning. If you get to the stage of this ‘Maha Viswasa’, you have almost realised. There is nothing more to realise.
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