SCIENCE OR RELIGION?
Both. And both more than the other because science is the search for truth in
the objective world and religion is also search for the truth in the subjective
world.
In fact, they are two wings of one bird, of one inquiry -- two sides.
Ultimately there is no need to have two names. My own suggestion is `science' is
perfectly beautiful name because it means knowing.
dimension of matter you can call it objective science, and knowing into the
dimension of your interiority, of your inner being, of your consciousness, you
can call it subjective science. There is no need for the word religion.
Science is perfectly good. And it is the same search. Just the directions are two.
And it will be good that we make one supreme science which is a synthesis, a
synchronicity of the outer science and the inner science. And there will be no
need then of so many religions and there will be no need then even for
somebody to be an atheist. Because theists are gone, then there is no need for
atheists -- they are only reactions.
There are believers in God so there are disbelievers in God. When the believers
are gone what is the need of disbelievers.
There is no need to believe in anything -- that is the fundamental of science; that
is the scientific approach to reality: do not believe, inquire.
The moment you believe, inquiry stops. Keep your mind open -- neither believe
nor disbelieve. Just remain alert and search and doubt everything. Unless you
come to a point which is indubitable, that's what truth is. You cannot doubt it. It
is not a question of believing in it, it is a totally different phenomenon and you
cannot doubt it. It is so much a certainty, so overwhelming you that there is no
way to doubt it.
And this is knowing and this knowing transforms a man into a Buddha, into an
enlightened man. This is the goal of all human growth.
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