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Doubt and Faith

Yesterday, I was quite tired. While coming home, I met traffic jams and developed some pain in my body. I was not at all feeling good while going to bed. The morning when I get up, my body is healed and I am feeling quite fresh. Sleep is such a miracle. The body goes into healing mode while we sleep. It is such a great blessing of God. 

When we fall ill or there is pain in our body, we do not feel good. Similarly, when we face tough situations, we develop doubts. Our mind tries to find solutions that are generally beyond its reach. It gets frustrated and keeps trying different solutions. However, none of the solutions brings relief. Finally, it gets tired and closes its eyes to surrender to the divine will, and then suddenly some solution appears and works. We human beings are quite obsessed with our intelligence and try to use and overuse our intelligence to find solutions to our problems oblivious to the fact that intelligence is quite limited and most of the solutions lie beyond the domain of intelligence. However, what lies beyond the domain of intelligence is a matter of faith since we have not seen and experienced that. How the body gets well during sleep can't be understood by the intellect and that is the reason why the intellect does not believe that easily and keep trying to take one or the other medicine till it is awake.

Can intellect ever understand what lies in the domain of faith? I feel yes. However, for that to happen, it will have to remove the firewall it has built around itself. It will have to allow the free flow of grace. Probably, then it will develop the capacity to understand and appreciate how the consciousness operates. Intellect will have to break free of what it knows to enter the domain of the unknown. It's not at all easy because entering the domain of the unknown has its own dangers. Beyond the domain of intellect may be a dark night or a bright insight, which the intellect can never be sure of. 

I feel that there is a possibility of watching the play of not only the intellect but all the nine forces of nature. We may be awake while sleeping. However, that awakening can't happen on the 2D screen of intellect. We need a multidimensional screen of consciousness to witness that grand play of nature. We have to enter the theatre of consciousness to witness that play. We have quite a lot of doubts while leaving the theatre of intellect. There is a big fear of missing out and also a fear of the unknown. That is the reason why most people prefer to stay in the domain of known. If somebody dares to enter into the theatre of consciousness, probably his entire worldview will change. One can be a witness to even those dimensions of reality that are not visible in the 2D theatre of intellect. However, doubts take over when we try to leave the theatre of mind. I really do not know what inspires a person to leave the theatre of mind and enter the theatre of consciousness. May be past life karmas, a call of the divine,  remembrance of the past union with the consciousness, or grace of the divine. 


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