Doubt and the Spiritual Path

Now, you will know that there is not a single religion on earth that would deny faith, but faith can only be brought about when doubt is removed. That is proper faith, otherwise it is just blind faith. Now, we do not advocate blind faith. …. The mind doubts, so the mind has to be appeased. The mind has to be given certain amount of logic so the doubt decreases to a certain extent, a certain little amount of logic that would say, ‘Look, this could be, this could be’. From complete doubt, we start putting a question mark to doubt by saying it could be. So we have started making progress. By that we mean that, seeing that we doubt this one particular philosophy, let us enquire into other philosophies and see what they say. And if we understand all those philosophies correctly then we come back to square one and there where doubt existed, faith comes into being, not a blind faith but a reasonable faith.