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it should come as a free perception or an imperative direction
from the inner spirit.
CWSA 22: 896

The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an
ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in darkness.
It is called blind by the sceptical intellect because it refuses to be
guided by outer appearances or seeming facts, — for it looks to
the truth behind, — and does not walk on the crutches of proof
and evidence. It is an intuition, — an intuition not only waiting for
experience to justify it, but leading towards experience. If I believe
in self-healing, I shall after a time find out the way to heal myself
— if I have faith in transformation, I can end by laying my hand on
and unravelling the whole process of transformation.
CWSA 28: 349

The phrase [“blind faith”] has no real meaning. I suppose they
mean they will not believe without proof — but the conclusion
formed after proof is not faith, it is knowledge or it is a mental
opinion. Faith is something which one has before proof or knowl-
edge and it helps you to arrive at knowledge or experience. There
is no proof that God exists, but if I have faith in God, then I can
arrive at the experience of the Divine.
CWSA 29: 91-92

Ramakrishna even went so far as to say, when asked whether blind
faith was not wrong, that blind faith was the only kind to have, for
faith is either blind or it is not faith but something else — reasoned
inference, proved conviction or ascertained knowledge.
CWSA 29: 93

Unbelief is blind — it does not see far ahead, neither stimulates
strength nor inspires action.
CWSA 6-7: 348

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