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6 A DIALOGUE ON THE HUMAN PROSPECT

A DiAloGue oN tHe

HumAN ProsPect

Disciple: What is the necessity of having steadfastness in faith?
Guru: It is not easy to make you realize what faith is. It is difficult
for the idea to enter a heart which has no vasana towards faith. Vasana
means an abiding propensity, the sum total of good and evil at birth, a
residue from lives already lived. Good and evil inhere in the individual
soul as qualities from times before this birth.
To explain this, and to elucidate faith, we have to first go into a
few details about contemporary Hindu religion.

What was the nature of the Hindu religion or sanatanadharma and its
Sanatanadharma culture?* We have not been able to learn it. Nor have
we earned the wisdom to make our contemporaries
aware of that dharma.

The Brahmins came in between — they hindered and blocked
this path. They did it deliberately lest others also should gain access
to this culture. They established the tradition of the Trimurti: the three
gods of Creation,Sustenance and Destruction — Brahma, Vishnu
and Maheswara. For their clannish survival and dominance they

* Sanatanam indicates traditions of culture or samskara initiated by gurus of different
times; it also suggests relevance for all times -- or its perennial ethos.