Conversation Holy Mother III – Faith and scholarship



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Faith and scholarship

Regarding faith in God, the Holy Mother once remarked, Does one get faith by mere study of books ? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the Scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory. Suppose I write to you a letter asking you

to bring certain things for me. How long do your need the letter ? So long as you do not know its contents. But when you have known the contents of the letter, do you need the letter any longer ? Then you will procure those things and come to me. On the other hand, what is the good of reading the letter day and night ? “

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