If your trust has an object, it is mere belief, like saying, "I’ll be rescued because my friend will come." Faith is: "I do not bother whether I’m rescued; I am alright either way." Faith is not dependent on a person or reason; it reflects a fulfilled Self that is unbothered, when you are alright without an objective reason to be alright.
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Acharya Prashant: Faith is not an act of thought, or memory, or conditioning. Faith is not something that you do for your protection or aggrandization. Faith just is.
You can say, “You believe in something,” but you cannot say the same thing about faith. You cannot say, “I have faith in such and such things.” If your trust has an object, then it is mere belief. Faith is when you are alright without an objective reason to be alright.
So, there is no object associated with faith. Belief is, “I will be rescued because my friend will come to rescue me.” This is the belief—I will be rescued because my friend will come to rescue me.
What is faith? “I do not bother whether I will be rescued or not. I am alright whether I am rescued or not.” So, faith therefore is not dependent on the occurrence of a person, a reason, or anything. Faith is, I said, object independent.
