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into the dark depths, wild depths, where are no boundaries, everything is vague, cloudy. The Greek mind walks on the logical, the straight, where everything is defined and classified. The Greek mind moves into the known. The Indian mind moves into the unknown, and even more into the unknowable. The Greek mind is absolutely rational; the Indian mind is absolutely contradictory. So if you find too many contradictions in me, don't be bothered. It is the way... in the East contradiction is the way to relate.
Milanda said, "This man seems to be irrational, gone mad. If he is not then how can he come? But let him come, I will see. I will prove: just by coming he is proving that he is."
Then came Nagasen. Milanda received him at the gate and the first thing he asked, he said, "I am puzzled: you have come and still you said that you are not."
Nagasen said, "Still I say. So let us settle it here."
A crowd gathered, the whole court came there, and Nagasen said, "You ask."
Milanda asked, "First tell me: if something is not, how can it come? In the first place it is not, then there is no possibility of its coming -- and you have come. It is simple logic that you are."
Nagasen laughed and he said, "Look at this RATHA" -- the bullock cart on which he had come. He said, "Look at this. You call it a ratha, a cart."
Milanda said, "Yes."
Then he told his followers to remove the bullocks. The bullocks were removed and Nagasen asked, "Are these bullocks the cart?"
Milanda said, "Of course not."
Then, by and by, everything from the cart was removed, every part. Wheels were removed and he asked, "Are these wheels the cart?"
And Milanda said, "Of course not!"
When everything was removed and there was nothing, then Nagasen asked, "Where is the cart I had come in?... and we never removed the cart, and all that we have removed you confirmed that this is not the cart. Now where is the cart?"
Nagasen said, "Just like this Nagasen exists. Remove parts and he will disappear." Just crisscrossing lines of energy: remove the lines and the dot will disappear. The cart is just a combination of parts.
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