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CHAPTER 28. SCIENCE PLUS RELIGION – THE DYNAMIC FORMULA FOR THE FUTURE
So, Rabindranath says, ”In that family it was always a marketplace. It was impossible to be in that
space where poetry becomes possible. It comes only when you are alone. It is very shy, it is very
feminine; it won’t come in a crowd. It won’t come if you are concerned with something else. It will
come only when you are concerned only with it. It is very possessive, just like the feminine. Of
course as graceful as the feminine, and as shy as the feminine, but of course, as possessive too.”
He said, ”When I am possessed I don’t want any disturbance. So many times I have missed, and a
half poem has remained half I could not manage that space again; the remaining lines never came.
And I am not a poet who will compose poetry just intellectually. If it comes from the beyond, I am
receptive.” And that beyond is really within your unconscious; it comes from there. But it looks like it
is coming from the beyond.
Now, if you cure the poet of obsession, you kill him. Sigmund Freud is not needed by poets and
scientists and artists. He will destroy them all. He will psychoanalyze them, disperse their obsession,
and they will be reduced into ordinary human beings. But religion is not one-dimensional, hence
there is no need for any obsession.
In fact, if you are obsessed you cannot be religious.
Yes, these people – scientists, poets, painters, musicians, dancers – have sometimes reached into
unknown spaces through their obsession. But those unknown spaces are not spiritual spaces;
they are within the mind, and they belong to some part below the conscious mind, either to the
unconscious or to the collective unconscious or to the cosmic unconscious.
The deeper the space is, the more unknown it is. But just because it is unknown does not mean that
you have touched something spiritual. It is unknown but part of the unconscious world of your mind
– it is not spiritual. It is tremendously exciting because it is so unknown. You have entered into an
unknown corner of your being.
It is just a tremendous discovery, but still it is not religious. It won’t bring you to the ecstasy and the
blessing of a religious man. On the contrary, it may create a tremendous anguish in you, a tension
which is unbearable, a nightmare which is pure suffering. Hence, you will find poets, musicians,
scientists, in a kind of anguish. What they are doing is certainly a kind of fulfillment to them, but it
does not bring solace to the soul.
Albert Einstein, before dying, said, ”If I am born again I would prefer to be a plumber than to be
a physicist.” What anguish he must have suffered that he is ready to become a plumber and does
not want to be a physicist again! – because any obsession is a torture. You are being stretched.
It is not a harmonious growth of your being because it is one-dimensional. It is as if a man’s head
starts growing and becoming bigger and bigger and bigger; the whole body shrinks and the head
becomes so big that he can only stand on his head, there is no other way. The body cannot support
the head.
In Japan they have dolls called daruma dolls Daruma is the Japanese name for Bodhidharma. Those
dolls are beautiful. They represent Bodhidharma: their base is heavy, very heavy, so you can throw
the doll in any way, and it will always go back into the lotus posture again. Because the base is
heavy and the head iS light, and the whole body is light, it cannot remain in any other position. If
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