faith Sri Aurobindo. Ramanuja and Kierkegaard.

Faith is a general word -shraddha -the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace.

SRI AUROBINDO

The fundamental faith in yoga is this, inherent in the soul, that the Divine exists and the Divine is the one thing to be followed after -nothing else in life is worth having in comparison with that. So long as a man has that faith, he is marked for the spiritual life and I will say that, even if his nature is full of obstacles and crammed with denials and difficulties, and even if he has many years of struggle, he is marked out for success in the spiritual life.

SRI AUROBINDO
25 June 1932

One must say, "Since I want only the Divine, my success is sure, I have only to walk forward in all confidence and His own Hand will be there secretly leading me to Him by His own way and at His own time." That is what you must keep as your constant mantra. Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and two make four. That is the faith every sadhak must have at the bottom of his heart, supporting him through every stumble and blow and ordeal. It is only false ideas still casting their shadows on your mind that prevent you from having it. Push them aside and the back of the difficulty will be broken.

SRI AUROBINDO
29 April 1934

The experience you had of the power of the Name and the protection is that of everyone who has used it with the same faith and reliance. To those who call from the heart for the protection, it cannot fail. Do not allow any outward circumstance to shake the faith in you; for nothing gives greater strength than this faith to go through and arrive at the goal. Knowledge and Tapasya, whatever their force, have a less sustaining power -faith is the strongest staff for the journey.

For Ramanuja and Kierkegaard faith is not mere belief; They do not regard it as a mere intellectual assent to a dogma, or some propositional truth. Positively they think it is a whole fabric of Godward attitudes that make it primarily a passion which grips the whole man, and regularises his day to day living.

Ramanuja emphasizes the "Ardour" of faith. It is this which makes faith a loving devotion exclusively directed (to Him) or a continuous meditation attended with love. Here it is said we have passion at its highest: and the surpassing intensity is made possible by the fact that faith is directed to the Supreme Person, the repository of all auspicious attributes.
Kierkegaard's view is quite similar to him too faith is "an infinite passionate and personal interest in Eternal Happiness."