WHY
HAS THERE NEVER BEEN A SOCIETY IN WHICH THE INNER
AND
THE OUTER SCIENCES, THE SCIENCE OF GENTLENESS AND LOVE AND
THE
SCIENCE OF AGGRESSION AND DEATH, LIVE IN HARMONY?
Now
the time has come. Everything can happen only at a particular time. Religion
has
come
to its ultimate peak in the Buddhas; now science is also coming to an ultimate
peak.
And
only when two things have grown is a meeting possible.
A
seed cannot meet a tree; the seed will have to become a tree. Only then, high
in the
winds,
in the clouds, can they whisper to each other, can they fall in love with each
other,
can
they embrace each other, hug each other -- can they have a dialogue. But a seed
cannot
have a dialogue with a grown-up tree; it is impossible. The seed will not know
the
language,
the tree will not understand the language of the seed.
Religion
has been in a mature state for almost five thousand years. Science is still
growing,
coming to maturity. Hence I say this time is one of the most precious times.
You
are fortunate to be alive today, because something immensely great is going to
happen
-- and that is the meeting of science and religion, the meeting of West and
East,
the
meeting of the extrovert mind and the introvert mind. It will create the new
man who
will
be able to move easily to the outside or into the inside, who will be able to
move
easily
into the extrovert world of science and into the introvert world of religion --
just as
you
move outside your house into the garden and back into the house. It is not a
problem;
you
don't need any reconciliation. You need not make a great effort each time you
come
out
of your house onto the lawn -- you simply come out! It is feeling cold inside,
and the
sun
is beautiful and warm outside: you come onto the lawn, you sit on the lawn. Later
on
when
it becomes too hot you simply move in because there is coolness inside.
Just
as easily as you come out of your house and go in, a total man will be able to
move
into
science and religion; the inner and outer will both be his.
Carl
Gustav Jung has divided human beings into two: the extroverts and the
introverts.
His
categorization is relevant for the past but will be utterly useless for the
future,
because
the future man will be BOTH together. In the past, we have always been
categorizing
in this way, but the future man will not be a man and will not be a woman. I
am
not saying biologically -- biologically the woman will be a woman, and the man
will
be
a man -- but spiritually the future man will have as many feminine qualities as
the
woman,
and the woman will have as many masculine qualities as the man. Spiritually
they
will never be labeled as man or woman any more. And that will be the real
liberation
--
not only the liberation of women, but the liberation of men too: liberation
from
straitjackets,
liberation from imprisoning categories, liberation from all labels.
Man
is not going to be Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian; man is not going to be Indian,
German,
English; man is not going to be white or black. Not that colors will disappear
--
the
white man will be white and the black will be black -- but these will become
irrelevant,
trivial, meaningless; they will not be decisive. The new man will have a
universal
consciousness, and the foundation will be laid by the meeting of science and Religion.
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