IF your faith is weak or waver-ing, do not expect others to solve it. It is not the right thing to do because it is your battle, and you have to deal with it. You cannot solve the problem of faith easily, unless you are clear about your values, beliefs and purpose in your life. If you have deeply thought about it and settled with your disbelief, it will be even more difficult to restore your faith. By faith, I mean having the belief in your eternal self or in god or in a higher purpose, power or deity. No one can really help those who go through this churning.
In the following discussion, I will explain why it is so, and what anyone can do when they are troubled by weak faith or lack of faith. At the very outset, it is important to know that you are not meant to have faith in this world of duality, delusion and ignorance. The world is made to make you disbelieve in god or in the transcendental reality rather than believe in it. You are meant to be an ignorant and deluded person who acts according to his desires and goes by his senses. If you are not, and if you are a person of strong faith, it is entirely due to your personal effort.
You should consider it a true virtue and a great, personal victory. It is more than having all the wealth in the world. Everything that happens here is meant to break your faith in a higher power rather than strengthen it. If the world is full of evil people and injustice, or if god does not easily answer your prayers and questions, it is because they are meant to shake your faith or put it to test rather than strengthen it. In the crucible of life your faith is tested, and so is your commitment to god and righteousness. For any human being with a strong conscience, it is a huge challenge to have faith in righteousness and eternal truths amidst all the mayhem and chaos that seem to negate them.
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