The difference between belief, fact and Faith || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Question: Trust is the foundation of all relations. Where does trust come from?

Speaker: Write down:

Belief – ImaginationTrust – FactFaith – Truth

All of these three words, belief, trust and Faith, pertain to ‘being’. They pertain to reality. Essentially all these three words are saying, ‘*something is there*’ or ‘*something exists*’ or ‘*it exists*’. Though when you say, “I believe this” Or “I trust this” or “I have Faith in this”, apparently you have an object to which the statement is directed. But really, you are talking about yourself and that remains hidden because that ‘I’ appears to be constant. You are saying, “I believe this”, “I trust this”, “I have Faith in this.” In all these three statements, because the ‘I’ is apparently the same, it appears as if you are talking only about some object that you are believing, trusting or having Faith in. But really, all these three statements pertain to the ‘I’. They pertain to what you know yourself as.

The believing mind, the trusting mind and the Faithful mind are three different levels of being. So that’s the reason why in the beginning we said that these pertain to existence itself. Who’s existence? Not only the existence around me, outside of me, but my own existence, my own existence. To simplify things, we can say that these are three levels of consciousness itself – believing, trusting and being Faithful.