The Blurred Line between Faith and Blind Faith

 While one part of India is making strides in the field of Science and Technology other is struggling in the clutches of blind faith and superstitions in the name of Faith.

India is a multi-dimensional nation. Describing India’s one prospect or describing one section of India can’t define India. While one India is exploring every aspect of Science through experimentation and reasoning the other India, in this 21st Century, is still fighting from unexplained superstitions and blind faith. Through superstitions people are harming themselves and blind faith is mistakenly understood as faith.

Faith is just a belief that nothing is unachievable and it inspires individual to strive for the good. It’s a belief in one’s own self and a trust on the miracles of hard work which in turn is God. But blind faith is dealing with destiny which in the sense is insane. People do things which scientifically and logically are impossible and this is blind faith and superstition.

Many Babas and self-acclaimed incarnations of God have successfully exploited this and have made a business out of it which is the bigger problem. Many Babas have recently been in the news who have made hundreds of Crores out of this, an amount that all of their followers could never dream to have. People are blinded by blind faith that they are not able to demarcate between God’s magic and a devil’s trick. 

The main reason behind blind- faith is lack of education and scientific aptitude among people. This is not a problem of a nation or a community this problem has roots at the individual level. Samuel Smiles, a Scottish Author and Reformer said “Superstitions are based on ignorance and there is no place for superstitions but in the darkness. The best way to remove superstitions is to educate the people and give them light of reason.  A true knowledge of Nature and God will take the place of blind beliefs and false traditions and this only can /should be the death-knell of superstitions.”

Education remains as the only way to cure the society from this disease of blind faith. Any wo

rkshop, any awareness program will not help until and unless people ask ‘Why’?

Let the rays of faith inspire our thoughts; and not the darkness of blind-faith determine our actions.