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CHAPTER 8. HE ALONE WINS WHO DOES NOT WANT TO WIN
The difficulty is that either we approach love unscientifically – and that would be really scientific – or
we deny love altogether. It would be scientific to see love as love is.
We can look at it from another angle. As I said earlier, eyes see and ears hear, and if we try to see
with our ears and hear with our eyes it will be utter madness. It is madness to look at things we hear
as though they have been seen. Eyes will just say that ears don’t see. And it is true. And since eyes
don’t hear they cannot accept that ears hear. So the eyes can come to only two conclusions: one,
that the ears don’t see – and that would be right – and the other, that the ears don’t hear – and that
would be wrong.
The scientific process is such that it cannot grasp anything but matter. Science is confined to the
understanding of matter; it cannot go beyond the material world. As eyes are confined to seeing
light and ears to hearing sound, the methodology of science is such that it can only know matter and
nothing else. Then there is only one possibility left: the scientist can say that there is nothing in the
universe except matter. And some scientists have really said so.
But as scientific knowledge is growing, science finds itself in deep waters, because it has reached a
point where matter has ceased to be matter. In the course of the last two decades, science has had
to accept there is something beyond its grasp. If scientists don’t accept this, then the very basis of
all they have known becomes doubtful. If they deny the existence of the electron, which seems to
be beyond their grasp, then the existence of the atom, which is within their grasp, becomes suspect,
because the electron is the basis of the atom. Therefore, with humility, science now accepts that
there is certainly something which is eluding its understanding, but it is not yet ready to accept that
anything is unknowable. Science still believes that sooner or later it is going to know it, and it will
continue to press its efforts in that direction.
Maybe science will know many more things; maybe it will know the secret of the electron, but it does
not seem probable it will ever know love. It is impossible to find love in a scientific lab. If it goes
in search of love, it will surely come across the lungs, but it will never find the heart. That is why it
believes the lungs are all there is, and there is nothing like the heart the poets talk about. But the
experiences of even an ordinary person say for sure that there is something like the heart. There
are many moments in our lives when we live not by the lungs alone, but by something much more
than the lungs, and that is our heart. And sometimes this heart becomes so important for us that we
can sacrifice everything, including the lungs, for its sake.
Someone dies for love. He dies for the sake of the heart that does not exist in the eyes of the
scientist. What will you say about this man? How can you deny the fact of his death? Someone, a
Majnoo, is madly in love with a Laila. He is mad to win the heart of his beloved. You can say that
this madness is wrong, but in spite of what you say, it is there Majnoo exists.
He may be wrong; he may be mad, but he is what he is. He lives for Laila, he sings in her memory,
he is poetic about her. An examination of his lungs will not reveal any of these things, neither the
presence of a Laila or his love for her. An investigation of the lungs will only reveal the breath and
blood that circulate through them, the oxygen and other substances, but it will miss the very thing
for which Majnoo is ready to give up his breath and his blood, even his whole life.
So there are only two ways to solve this difficulty. Either we deny love or we refuse to look at it with
the eyes of a scientist. But how can we deny the existence of love? It exists. But then we look at
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