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hence religion has become almost out of date, of the past. There seems to be no future for religion.
Sigmund Freud has declared that there is no future for the illusion called religion. But if there is no future for religion, there is no future for man either. Science is going to destroy humanity -- because humanity can live only through the poetic, the metaphoric. Life gathers significance only through the heart. Man cannot live by mind alone. Man cannot live by calculation, mathematics alone. Mathematics can serve, but cannot be the master. The head can only be the servant, and as a servant it is very useful; but when it pretends to become the master it is dangerous, it is fatal.
The language of objective science lives in the world of facts. Things are as they are; you say what you mean, as precisely as you can, and as unequivocally. Speaking, then, is deciphering a puzzle, defining, prescribing limits -- this is this, not that. It is water, not steam and not ice. Here is here, not there. One is one, two equals two, dead is dead. This is the world of facts -- dull and dead, stale and stagnant.
It is impossible to live just in the world of facts, because then you will never be able to relax. In fact, it is meaningless to live in the world of facts -- from where will you get the meaning? from where will you get the value? Then a rose has no beauty; it is only a botanical fact. Then love has no splendour; it is only a biological fact.
How can one live in facts? Living in facts, life starts becoming meaningless. It is not an accident that the mod-ern philosophical minds are talking continuously about meaninglessness. We have created it by deciding to live only in one language -- the prose language.
It is a good thing that we have this language, the language of facts, the language of prose. Our world cannot do without it, true. It is needed, but it Can't be the goal of life. It can only serve. But we never use it when we Want to pour out our hearts and say what is really in us, hidden and almost impossible to name.
A man is certainly poor if he has not felt the inadequacy of ordinary language. If there is somebody so unfortunate
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