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of being mysterious into knowledgeability. Knowledge is absolutely unmysterious.
This is the world of the mystic. This is the world of sat-chit-anand -- truth, consciousness and bliss.
These words are absolutely unknown to science, and these words are absolutely scary for the mind. Neither does it know truth, nor does it want to know the truth; lies are so beautiful and comfortable. Truth is dangerous for the mind, because mind's whole basis is false and phony. The moment truth arrives mind has to leave, its time is over. The arrival of truth is instant death to the mind: all its empire simply disappears.
Nor is the mind interested in consciousness. In fact, the mind tries in every way to remain unconscious as much as possible. Down the ages, every society and every culture has condemned alcohol and other intoxicating drugs, but to no effect -- they have survived and they go on growing more and more influential. The reason is: mind wants to drown itself in unconsciousness, which is its only relaxation. Otherwise there is always tension, because the unknowable is very close. The mind wants to forget all about the unknown, all about truth.
You will be surprised to know that science is not interested at all in discovering the truth. It is interested in discovering relative truths. Relative truths are simply relative lies! You can use the words as synonyms.
Just try ... If you say to someone, "I love you relatively," what will it mean? It will simply mean that you love many more people too. "Relatively," you can say, "I love you too." You hate many people relatively -- you don't hate just that person. With love, you are really saying, "I love you, relatively." But no lover has ever made such a statement. Every lover says, "I love you totally, absolutely."
Science is interested only in the objective world, where you can never come to the ultimate truth, because from the very beginning it is boycotting the subjective world. So its truth is going to remain always relative. The scientist is interested in objects, but he is not interested in himself.
To be interested in oneself means to be interested in truth, to be interested
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