"So science is based on empirical experimentation, observation and objective thinking. Philosophy is based on non-empirical, speculative thinking, subjectively based. Religion transcends both. Religion is neither objective nor subjective. Religion thinks of the whole in terms of the whole. That is why we use the term holy. Holy means 'that which comprehends the whole.'

"When we call a particular type of mind 'the Indian mind,' when we designate it as such, when we make this distinction, it is not a geographical distinction. When we say Indian to me it means that the world, the reality, is being seen neither through science nor through philosophy but through religion. So if you like you can say that this land, this country and the mind that has evolved here, has peeped into reality through religion – not through philosophy, not through science. This third dimension, religion, has been the basis for us.

"Reality – when you think about it, any type of thinking is bound to be nothing more than an acquaintance, because when I think about you, I am outside you. I can go around and around, but whatever comes to my knowledge will just be an acquaintance. I cannot penetrate you, I cannot know you from within. So this is just acquaintance.

"Science is acquaintance; science is not knowledge. It has to change moment to moment. Every day something new comes; we become more acquainted and science has to change. So science can never be absolute in the sense that philosophy can be. Philosophy is absolute because we are not thinking about the outside but about the inside of humanity, the inside of the human being – the innermost, the subjective core of our minds. Philosophy can be absolute, but philosophy cannot be the whole. The outside has been left out of it.

"Science is also a part. Philosophy, too, is a part. Only religion can be the whole, because in religion we are not dividing the objective and the subjective. We are taking the reality as it is – the whole. This whole cannot be thought about; this whole can only be felt. So religion is knowing through feeling.

"India has been leaning more and more from thinking toward feeling."