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will lead. With a dead thing, everything is certain and fixed. You are at ease. You are not worried about it. You are certain.
To make everything certain is a deep urge in the mind because mind is afraid of life. Mind creates science just to kill every possibility of life. Mind tries to find explanations once an explanation is found, the mystery is dissolved.
You ask a why, and it is answered, then the mind is at ease. What have you achieved through it? You have not achieved anything, you have lost something -- a mystery has been lost.
Mystery makes you uneasy because it is something greater than you, something which you cannot manipulate, something which you cannot use as a thing; something which overwhelms, something which overpowers, something before which you are naked and impotent -- something before which you simply dissolve. Mystery gives you a feeling of death; hence so much inquiry about whys -- why this? why that? This is the first thing to be remembered.
But don't think that I am avoiding your question. I am not avoiding it. I am telling you something about the mind -- why it asks. And if you can retain the feeling of mystery, I am going to answer. If the feeling of mystery is retained, then answering is not dangerous, it can be useful. Then every answer leads you into a deeper mystery. Then the whole thing becomes qualitatively different. Then you ask, not to get an explanation, then you ask to get deeper into the mystery. Then the curiosity is not mental, then it becomes an inquiry -- a deep inquiry of being.
See the difference? If you are hankering after an explanation then it is bad, and I will be the last one to fulfill it because then I become an enemy to you, then I make things dead around you. Theologians have made even God a dead thing -- they have explained it so much, they have answered so many things about God, that's why God is dead. Humanity has not killed him -- the priests, they have killed him. They explained him so much that no mystery has remained.
And what is God if there is no mystery in it? If it is just a theory you can discuss, a doctrine you can analyze, a belief you can accept or deny,
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