Faith

"Just think for a moment how you carry on your daily routine with or without faith.  You will soon notice that your every action, both mundane and spiritual, is based only on faith.  You give your clothes, costly shirts and safari suits to a washer man in full faith that he would bring them back after washing and ironing.  If you suspect that he would run away with your clothes, will you give them to him? 

 Most valuable gold is given to goldsmiths to make jewellery out of it, in good faith that they would do so.  Even if a trace of doubt arises in your mind, will you ever hand over valuable gold?  You go to a barber for a haircut.  Do you, for a moment, entertain the feeling that he would put his knife in the neck instead of on the head?  You bend your head in good faith in front of the barber to have your hair cut.  

So also in good faith, a patient will lie down on the operation table and allow himself to be operated upon by the surgeon.  Do you doubt that your life is not safe in his hands?  

So, be he a dhobi or a goldsmith or a barber or a doctor for that matter, all transactions are made in good faith.  To be faithless is unnatural and artificial.  But the pity of it is that you have full faith in everyone but not in God.  Isn't that very unfortunate?"

(From "Sathyopanishad" Pt. II by Prof. K. Anil Kumar; 

Answer by Baba to Q.169)