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2. Devotion
Devotion
Call it faith or devotion, it is the same thing. The emotional impulse behind the penance of the devotee is faith. If there is no faith, penance is a dead exercise.
What is the difference between the living and the dead ? Where there is faith, devotion, adoration, there is life, three is universal good, there is God. Where there is no faith, the soul is dead.
Have Faith
You are a living soul. You are not merely matter, not bricks and stones. You should decide first what you want to be. Whatever you want to be, you can be. But the prerequisite for it is that you should have faith. You should deserve it. As soon as the bud blossoms forth into a flower, innumerable honey bees gather around it, singing songs in its praise uninvited.
Faith
Faith is the greatest power in human life. It is by the power of faith that man can win over his difficulties and. attain the goal of his life. A man of faith is never defeated,
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