Faith / Trusting Conviction (Śraddhā)

Śraddhā is faith — but less a belief in propositions than a trusting, wholehearted disposition: confidence in the teaching, in the teacher, and in the worth of the goal, the inner 'yes' that lets a seeker commit and persevere. The Bhagavad-gītā says a person is made of their śraddhā — that one becomes what one trustingly gives oneself to. Across the schools it is treated as a qualification without which the path cannot even begin, the soil in which knowledge or devotion takes root.