Sorry Sujan Ji couldn't write earlier; life is hec-tic. Interesting! Ya its little confusing, enlighten faith seems like knowledge. However, it isn't. Let me try to differentiate knowledge from enlighten faith. If you know somehthing, have perceived something though your own senses, and there is no room left for doubt at all; it is knowledge. If you don't know it, haven't perceived it through your own senses, but you trust it because it seems logical and rational to your intellect; that is enlighten faith. Might be tiny little but there can always be room for doubt in enlighten faith. Let me illustrate by some examples: I don't know whether this is right example or not but ets talk about diameter of the sun again. If you are a science person and have gone through the problem or have recalculated yourself and get convinced. This can be said as knowledge because you know it by yourself for sure and there remains no doubt for your. However, if you believe it to be true because the scientific community examined it and passed it, it is an enlightened faith. You trust scientific community which makes you to trust their analysis. You don't know it by yourself but you accept it. Knowledge is the truth perceived by yourself. However, enlighten faith is the truth perceived by somebody else but accepted by yourself. Knowledge -----------You know it for sure by yourself. Enlighten faith ------You accept it under the logical ground. Knowledge gives you the feeling of ------------ Indeed it is true! Enlighten faith gives you the feeling of ------- Seems to be true! Knowledge can definitely say ............. This is the truth! Enlighten faith can say ........ This sounds truth! This appears to be truth! Finally let me give you one more example. I: Suppose you got lost on your way to some destination, and you asked for the direction to a pedestrian. You got directions and followed them instently without any analysis. You trusted the person blindly- This is blind trust or blind faith. II: You got the direction but analyzed it. Whether the person completely understood where you wanted to go. Whether the location you were heading to matched to the direction given by the person. How the person looked like? Was s/he mentally sound? etc etc. After proper analysis your common sense found that person as logical, rational and trustworthy and you followed. You trusted the person through analysis - This is enlighten trust or enlighten faith. In this case you don't know for sure whether the person is right or not. S/he might be right, might not be, but sounds right. Though a little, there is room for doubt. Things are not perfectly clear. III: You got directions, followed them, walked over the path and found the destination. Now you know for sure the person was trustworthy. Now no doubt is left, everything is clear. Now you can definitely say that the directions were right. --This is knowledge. Knowledge = You know for sure. Enlighten faith = You don't know for sure but seems true. I don't think that I will be able to make clearer than this. Indeed faith doesn't embrace everyone! Assure me the faith you are talking about is not the blind faith! Contd...................