Baba says, “To be unshakeable even amidst some upheaval is known as being a victorious jewel whose intellect has faith. However, it is not just faith in the Father, but let there also be faith in yourself and in the drama.“

The sign of my intellect having faith is victory. This is why the praise is: those who intellects have faith are victorious. Often I hear that and misinterpret what that means. I think that if I really want or desire something and if I keep faith that it will happen, then it will happen; I think my getting what I wanted is the victory that my faith got me. In reality though, that is not faith at all; it is positive thinking. Faith is something different.

Faith means that no matter what the circumstance or need, I already experience victory irrespective of whether the circumstance goes away or not, irrespective of whether I receive something I wanted or not, I experience victory based on the power of my own stage. So to have faith means that I am already victorious. Maybe I find myself in a situation where I am facing opposition to an idea I have for a project. I have tried to explain my point of view multiple times and I know beyond a shred of doubt that doing it this way would be beneficial but no one seems to agree with me. At this point, I often think that having faith means to say: “Baba will get it done. He is the Intellect of the Wise, He will touch their intellects and enable them to understand.” The better thing to believe is that Baba will ensure that whatever is good for everyone will happen – whether it is my way or a different way. This is faith in the goodness and the wisdom of Baba. But it isn’t sufficient to have faith just in Baba, I need faith in the self as well as in the Drama.

To have faith in the self means that I don’t doubt my relationship with the Father, or my own goodness irrespective of what happens. Often, if I don’t get the desired outcome, I start to doubt myself: “Was what I did wrong? If I am right, why didn’t it happen the way I wanted?”, “Is Baba with me or is He with them? How come they won and I lost despite being sincere?” Baba is always with me, He is my Father and He loves me more than life itself. To doubt this is to shake the foundation upon which I am standing. What happens in a situation has nothing to do with my standing with Baba. I am always His most beloved child irrespective of what happens externally. If something didn’t turn out the way I expected, it might be because it wasn’t the right time, or there is something better in store for me or this project would have distracted me from my purpose…whatever. This is also faith in Drama. Often I make the mistake of thinking of Drama in terms of ‘good scenes’ and ‘bad scenes’. But Drama is not good or bad, it is perfect! Drama is 100% accurate and beneficial. Drama is not trying to make life hard for me, it cherishes me! If I wanted one thing and something else happened, then faith is to know that Drama is right and that it knows something that I don’t. So if I trust it and go with what it wants me to do, then in time, I will find out why it’s way is better than what I had in mind. This is faith.

Baba is always victorious because He stays firm on the Drama in addition to having unshakeable faith in Himself and in me. He has been teaching His children now for decades and yet He doesn’t always get the results He might want. But He doesn’t come into doubt and think: “I have failed! I keep trying to get these children to understand and yet they seem adamant to do it their way. They simply don’t get it. Maybe I’m a bad teacher! Maybe I was wrong about being able to establish heaven! Maybe I’m not God after all!” No!, He never doubts Who He is or who I am or the Drama. If I didn’t get something He taught me, then He simply tries again in a different way, and again and again. He recognizes that Drama is beneficial and accurate. It is simply a matter of a few clicks, of a couple more things falling into place. This is faith. He is victorious irrespective of the outcome because He doesn’t allow His stage to be dictated by the outcome, by the scenes. He stays in His self-respect, keeps His peace and joy no matter what happens or doesn’t happen. This is victory; getting a desired outcome is not.

To others in the world, a particular outcome might seem like defeat and they might give me their opinion. Indeed, there are many who even doubt God is who He says He is. They think: “well, how come He doesn’t bring back the dead, how come He doesn’t make someone’s illness go away, how come He doesn’t make this situation go away…”. They think that those things are victory, they are not. To remain firm in who the Father has told me that I am, in who the Father is, and in the benevolence of the Drama is to be someone with a faithful intellect that always experiences victory. If I catch myself coming into upheaval, then that’s a sign that I need to check my faith in one or more of these areas. I have to have faith in all three areas to be victorious. If I only have faith in the Father, then I will make the mistake of thinking that He should do what I am believing for. And when I don’t get what I wanted, I start to doubt the Father’s goodness or His love for me. But when I realize that the Father works with the Drama, not outside it, then I learn to let go of my grip over a specific outcome and allow the right thing to happen. And if the right thing is not what I had in mind, I don’t begin to doubt myself as to whether I am good or bad, right or wrong etc., I appreciate the fact that my Father and the Drama are taking care of me.

This is also what is known as being a conqueror of attachment. Attachment is not just with people or things, it is also to outcomes, to having certain gross or subtle desires fulfilled. The definition of being a conqueror of attachment is very deep, says Baba. For your intellect to have faith is a step on the ladder of being a conqueror of attachment.