Faith and blind faith Dear Bharath, I am not sure if your question about the term Blind faith’ is from a grammatical point of view or from a philosophical one. However let me explain what my life has taught me about it. According to rationalists, faith itself is illogical and blind faith is even more illogical. But it is this faith that keeps family and friends together. It is the blind faith in each other that forms the backbone of a close relationship. Faith is a belief not based on proof. Illogical faith is applied in different areas too – even by rationalists! When we say to someone, ‘See you tomorrow,’ we say it out of faith. We ‘believe’ that the world would exist the following day and that we would be in it too. Even possessing bank accounts and putting money in them, indicate that the account holder has ‘faith’ in a tomorrow that has not confirmed its coming. Now let us look at what I actually mean by ‘blind faith’ and how I practise it. I started my previous post, dated 30.12.2014, ‘How my Karma led to me to the feet of the Sage’, that over two decades ago, I worked as a motorcycle stuntman and later as an actor in Indian films. I have an inborn talent at least as far as driving automobiles is concerned and my crazy hobby soon became my profession. I used to double for popular film stars. It is anyone’s guess that a stuntman should be prepared to spend a certain part of his life in hospitals and I was no exception. I had serious accidents with life threatening injuries. In my previous post, I mentioned only a part of the recovery process after one such accident. I was under the impression that I had fully recovered when I came to know that I had developed new problems which turned out to be serious. The situation was pretty bad. Logically speaking, the Doctors were pretty worried about the chances of the surgery being a success simply due to the advanced stage of infection. That is when I travelled to Kanchi. Now, when I travelled to Kanchi to meet our beloved Mahaswamy, I did so with BLIND FAITH. I was BLIND to any logical ideas and suggestions that even that trip of mine to Kanchi, could worsen the condition of the infection I had. I had no ‘What if’ questions in my mind. It was the total and blind belief that if I could get the Blessings of Mahaperiyavaa, I would be cured. My faith cured me and as I said in my post, it has been over 23 years now and I live a healthy life running my own business in Central Europe. Another injury that I had suffered in that very same accident was that of my right arm. Septicemia had set in and my right arm was to be amputated. How my arm was miraculously saved, just one hour before the amputation is another story. Should you have some time, please do go through this post of mine on my blog, where I have written about that miracle too. tavamithramsarvada.wordpress/2014/02/23/life-is-a-gift/ Therefore my dear, when faith itself is considered to be something illogical by rationalists, it being blind, actually makes it even more irrational. But for the believer, it indicates the depth of his or her faith which, scientifically speaking, triggers the placebo effect in the person. Hundreds of thousands of people who have never even seen Mahaperiyavaa have BLIND faith in Him. How do you think the persons you mentioned ‘knew’ that they were ‘dealing’ with Sivan Himself? It was due to ABSOLUTE and BLIND faith. One does not need to be a famous person in order to be blessed by Mahaswamy, who was Siva Peruman Himself. Swamigals Love and Grace cross all barriers of gender, creed, nationality and age. He touches the life of anyone that has faith. Well, I would call it blind faith :) Om Namah Shivaya
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:31:40 +0000
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