Why friendship is not blind but only love?
You do not choose in love, you simply fall in it. It is not your choice. You just blindly fall into it, without bothering that there are millions of women, millions of men around; and soon you are going to come to somebody who is far more beautiful, far more intelligent, far more loving, far more suitable to your temperament. Love is an unknown relationship. We are not able to recognize it hence we call it ‘blind’ — love is blind, just as the ears can’t see, the tongue can’t smell and the eye can’t taste. In this way love is blind, because it is arising from levels which are so deep that it becomes difficult for us to understand the reasons for it. For centuries people have called love blind — because it cannot answer why. They have called the experience of love, “falling in love.” It is an irrational, illogical, emotional experience. It is not something logical, rational, mathematical, scientific, where “why” is relevant. There may be hundred and one reasons for friendship, but you
