Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 17
The faith of the people, who want to attain salvation is sattvika, of those who want mundane pleasures, prosperity and also heaven etc., is rajasa and of those who believe in 'eat, drink and be merry' as well as in indolence, heedlessness and excessive sleep etc., is tamasa. Faith consists, in the acceptance of the existence of God and in His realization. Where there is faith, love reveals itself naturally, because the soul is a fragment of God. So, as soon as, one develops faith, he is attracted towards Him. When having a disinclination, for the Lord, he remains absorbed in worldly pleasures and prosperity, believing in the mundane. This sort of faith or belief, is not real, it is a misuse of faith. This mundane faith, leads to a downfall. The faith, that he belongs to a particular caste(vama) and a particular social order (asrama), is a higher sort of faith, than mundane faith. But, the best and the real faith, is the faith in God, saints, liberated souls and scriptures. Such faith leads to salvation.[1]
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- ↑ ln the mundane faith there is predominance of pleasures, in the religious faith there is predominance of feeling and in the spiritual faith there is predominance of the auth.