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Guru Nanak Dev and Bergson
the west, a philosopher named Bergson of France ranks high amonhTSt the
philosophers whose mind rose very high towards the unseen and whose
eyes could see wondrousness Le. the sixth sense despite being tied to the five
senses of the body.
This is the first time in the history of philosophy that a philosopher has
considered science as well as intellect inadequate to peep in the unseen.
BerhTSon saw eye to eye with Kant's doctrine that we could not know or
reach God with our intellect. Kant, therefore, did not consider God as the
topic of intellect. He had concluded in his doctrine that God is beyond the
scope of philosophy.
Bergson said that we had a dual mind for research. One is intellectual
mind and another is intuitive. Without the union of the two one could not
perceive the unseen because even the unseen has two facets, one is matter
and the second is life.
All the discoveries of science are the result of research by the intellectual
mind. It is the intellectual mind that has the art of reasoning and uses it to
come to logical conclusions. Its knowledge pertains to matter. The intellectual
mind has scope up to knowledge of meat and bones and not of life. The
knowledge of the secret of life is beyond its scope. The intellectual mind is
inexpert. It cannot put its finger on the cycle of life. The cycle of life is a
miracle of the Lord. For the intellectual mind it is something that is alien or
unfamiliar.
The intellectual mind is made ofmatter and its subject is matter. Whatever
comes in its scope is matter. It cannot gain knowledge from a whole object or
substance. It has to cut it bit by bit and do research. The flow of life stops
when it comes under the cutting edge of the knife. Life is a flow. Its stoppage
is its end. But actually it is unending. It never sto,ps.
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