SujankS Ji, nice to hear from you. You wrote: I don't think you can ever categorize or consider faith to be blind. Faith means someting you truly believe it. If you have faith that is great. Do not be fooled that you are blinded. If you even give a chance to youself that faith or love is blind, then you are not in faith or love. you are beyond it now. I am not quite agree with you on this. Faith can be blind as well as enlightened. For example: When someone first calculated the diameter of the Sun and decleared it or published it. If I isntantly believe without any analysis, it is blind belief. I have 50-50% chances to be right. However, if I read his paper and find him logical, rational then believe. Or if I don't understand scientific language then analyze with some other techniques like common sense. If the scientists of the world are approving his work, then have faith if not don't have faith. This will leave me either 100% right or 0% right. This is enlightened faith. Blind faith is the faith wihtout proper analysis where as enlightened faith is the faith with right analysis. If somebody advartizes his product and you buy it on the basis of his words, that's blind faith, because you bought it without testing his wrods. There is 50-50% chance to be cheated. However, if you analyze him, his character, his motivation and finally see the product, there will be either 0 or 100% chance to be cheated. Now you have faith on his words, this faith is enlightened faith. If someone come to you and say he can make cream out of water, and you believe it, that is blind faith. If you don't analyze, of course you are left with nothing other than to believe. If someone come to you and say he can make you disappear in a fraction of second, if you believe it that is blind belief. If you don't analyze, of course you are left with nothing other than to believe. These are lil bulk type of blind beliefs, everybody's intellect can catch them easily. However, the theory is equally valid for subtal ones, they are subtal so they may deceive the normal intellect. If you have faith without analysis, that is a blind faith. There is 1/2 chance to be right. You don't have to test everyting yourself, you can analyse them with common sense or through differnt means. Kids don't touch the fire not because their mom said so, but because they feel hot when they go close. You can not keep poison bottle in your self and say to your kids not to drink it because it will kill. Kids intellect is not matured enough to protect them so they need baby sitters and proper attention. However, when They grow up your intellect is matured enough to have faith on their parents. Your intellect is automated to believe your parents. You have already tested them. You know they can not deceive you. So you have faith on them. This is enlightened faith. (More later on this) If you even give a chance to youself that faith or love is blind, then you are not in faith or love. you are beyond it now I will write about faith some other time, however, let me tell something about love. I believe "Love" you mean passionate love. Compassionate love is different, its very rare and you can hardly find compassionate people. Passionate love is blind. Of course it is blind which has already been proved scientifically. Scientists scaned the brains of lovers for the physical test and found that analytical part of the mind being inactive. They found that while you are in love, you can't see the negative aspects of your lover. Isn't this a psychological blindness?