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not tasting it from the inside.
That is the whole scientific dilemma -- that science tries to see from the outside, and believes only whatsoever can be known from the outside. She is still afraid of the inside statement; not yet trusting the inside statement. But scientists will have to come to realise that. More and more limitations of their methodology will be revealed. More and more they will come against walls which they cannot penetrate.
Science is doomed to be a failure. When I say that, I don't mean that science is not going to be useful. It has been useful, it will be useful, but it cannot be ultimate. That dream is shattered. Religion is, and is going to remain, the ultimate, because it accepts a different category -- of the unknowable.
Man is not the unknown. He's all three: known, unknown, and unknowable. And the real essence remains the third -- the unknowable.
Whatsoever you do, it will elude your grasp... you will not be able to grab it. And the more you try, the more you will find that it has slipped out of the hands. That's the mystery ... and that's the beauty. That's the grandeur, the splendour.
So be hesitant; don't be worried about that. That's good. It shows that you respect the fact that you are moving on sacred ground. When you touch another's body you are almost entering the temple of God. The body is the temple of God. So first pray and then move, mm?
[A sannyasin who is leaving says: When my heart hopes, I will come back.]
Very good! Your heart I am keeping here! (laughter) Only you are going. So whenever you need your heart, come back. I can always lend it to you, but I can never give it back to you. You can borrow it for a few days, that's all!
And start a small centre for me, mm? so just a few friends can meet and talk and listen to the tapes and read, meditate. Then things go on.... I will give you a name for the centre.
This will be the name: Deepam. It means the light, the lamp. In India we have a special lamp which is called deepam. It is made of mud. The very poor people in the villages use it -- just a small cup of mud filled with oil. So deepam means an earthen lamp,
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