Like most, this religion holds that having a strong belief, a personal faith, is crucial to a spiritual life.The religion specifically relates how the abilities to know the truth are related to the overall goal of developing a praiseworthy character in addition to personally being aligned with the truth.
A core teaching of the Bahai Faith is an unfettered search for the truth. Another core teaching of the Bahai Faith is that science and religion should agree and not be opposed to each other.
As in other religions, it is held that having a firm belief itself can make seemingly impossible things possible, even natural.
Being disciplined about this search for truth can be seen as a philosophy, and the literature of the religion sometimes praises philosophers.
According to the Bahai Faith, the object of all learning is to achieve the presence of God in one's life, and thereby to know ourselves.
The Bahai Faith suggests that several ways of learning can help lead you to that goal:
- Sense Perception
-Intellect
-Insight
-The Holy Writings
-The Experience and Research
-Spirit of Faith
It also references the idea that like many other things, the appreciation of truth, one's belief and one's degree of faithfulness, is progressive.
Various disciplines are mandated or suggested in the Bahai Faith as ways to grow, and protect, one's faith:
-Read the words of Bahau llah twice a day
-Read the daily obligatory prayers
-Teaching or promulgating one's belief(not proselytizing)
-Performing pure and goodly deeds
-Being obedient to the laws and teachings of Bahau llah
-Being detached from ego and worldly matters (not disengagement from)
-Eschewing gossip and backbiting
-Meditating on spiritual matters(Wikipedia.com)
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