im in the same boat actually.. and to be honest, no amount of quoting "he watches over you" will help one bit! thats not gonna do it ppl. use your heads, come up with something original, rise to the occasion. are you men of god so much devoid of creativity? does not your great faith in the supreme creator inspire you above the ordinary?
anyway, kaur ji, while the last thing i wanna do is dwell on 'faith problems', if you need to talk, feel free to drop me a message.
the answer is simple and remarkable - seek out the company of believers in a social setting (eg a football club, gurdwara, church or other - deleting the others as desired), do as they do and make an effort to interact fully in their customs, observing their rituals and establishing a social bond with the community. By now you are half way there - the next part is more difficult and in some ways easier.
Actively seek out things that delight you - for example you might discover the writings of a great author, or the music of a superb artist, it can be anything really. Now all of this is good fun, but you really need to address any outstanding problems that stand in your way. Think carefully and widely about it, then with courage, push yourself to follow through in your resolution. If you are a sikh, then this will solve your problem about faith because if you believe sikh teachings - then all that happiness is due to the Creator - and so you should have faith because he has made you happy - rewarded you for your faith and so on.
It will also demonstrate that faith is found and sometimes lost, too easily, and regardless of what people might say, it isnt something mysterious or shall we say, spiritual - instead it is directly related to our immediate experiences, and its explanation or lack of, lies within our social interactions. The sikh gurus knew this fact fully well, and it is for that reason that they stressed the importance of social involvement.
neo, pheena if your arguments cannot even convince a child than santa clause exists - then what good will it do to explain to a thinking adult that an invisible being is watching her, and so she should have faith that he does - isnt this very circular anyway. I suspect there is nothing in sikh scriptures that can convince a skeptical person about god. Which is pretty amusing to me, because if you cant even do that - then what value can you ascribe to religious faith, which is just blind faith. Its strange that the sikh gurus placed so much emphasis on God - when it seems quite clear to me that theirs was a philosophy of extremely practical interest. For example by stressing the benefits of an egalitarian society they gave us a refreshing social model to follow. Perhaps they adopted the idea of god only to put all good and decent men of whatever background on the same level by postulating that theirs was a common god. Or maybe they genuinely believed in god - but they do not stop to explain this to their sikhs, it is automatically taken for granted that by deciding to be a sikh you believe - which is reasonable from their perspective of making a religon, but for someone neutral, it doesnt stand to reason.
sexy_singh got a reaction from harsharan000 in how to restore faith???
