Death in the Ego Is Life in Love

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Osho,
You said yesterday that science and religion are diametrically opposite. In the West there are many schools teaching scientific mysticism, and the paths of Tantra and Yoga are also very systematic.…
Osho,
You said yesterday that science and religion are diametrically opposite. In the West there are many schools teaching scientific mysticism, and the paths of Tantra and Yoga are also very systematic.…

Osho continues:
"If they are not opposites there is no need for any bridge.

"So the first thing to be understood: science and religion are diametrically opposite, but to bridge them is possible. That bridge will not make them the same. In fact, that bridge will make their diametrical opposition louder, clearer.

"Religion can have a scientific flavor, it can be systematic, but it never becomes science, it remains mysticism. It takes the garb of a science, the methodology, the terminology of a science, but it remains mysticism, it remains poetry.

"You can translate poetry into prose; the prose can be translated into poetry. Just by translating prose into poetry you will not make it poetry, it will remain prose. And just by translating poetry into prose, it will not become prose, it will remain poetry. Buddha speaks in prose, but what he speaks is poetic.

"I am not a poet. I speak prose, but what I speak is poetic, its soul is poetic. And it remains poetic.

"Religion can use scientific systematization – that's what Tantra and Yoga have done. Science can also use mysticism as a method to inquire into reality, and all the great scientists have used it. But still it remains science; its basic trust is in reason. Religion's basic trust is not in reason. On the periphery, religion can become scientific, but at the core it remains irrational. And science, on the periphery, can become very, very poetic, but at the core it remains rational.

"Albert Einstein, or other great scientists, great explorers, are very much like mystics. Their search into reality is almost the same as the search of William Blake into reality. Einstein's eyes are full of mysticism, but deep down his trust is in reason. Even if he stumbles upon something through his poetic feelings, through his intuition, he will immediately translate it into reason. He will trust it only when it becomes rational.

"And just the opposite is the case with a mystic: even if he comes to know something about reality which is very rational, he will transform it into the irrational; he will turn and change it into poetry.

"They are opposites, but they can be bridged, and they are always bridged wherever you can find a contradictory person."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 94 mins
File Size 19.45 MB
Type Conversa Individual