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a new man is emerging out of the historical process -- a man of the future who will be neither of the East nor of the West. A new mind is coming into being: a global mind, a universal mind. So we have to discard our obsessions. The East has to discard its obsession with the third dimension: the religious; and the West has to discard its obsession with the first dimension: the empirical, the scientific. We have to see the world, the reality, through all three dimensions. Only then -- through all the doors that are potentially available to human beings everywhere -- can a synthesized knowledge, knowledge that is total, be gained.
A person becomes whole when he becomes three-dimensional: simultaneously philosophical, religious and scientific. If these three dimensions are in the mind simultaneously, then the mind knows reality through all the doors of perception.
But as you have asked about the basic Indian philosophy, I will have to say that religion, the door of feeling, is the basic attitude in India. We have used feeling as a means of knowing.
Ordinarily knowing and feeling are two distinct things but there are certain feelings through which one comes to know something -- like in love. You can know a person through science, but then you know only the periphery. Then you know only the circumference. Then you know only the physiology or the chemistry or the biology or the history, but you do not know the person as he actually is. You know about him, but you do not know him. But when you love him, you do not know the biology, the physiology, the chemistry of the body or the psychology, but you know him as he is -- the total. In love, you penetrate to the innermost core, you become one with him. So love, too, becomes a dimension of knowing.
Feeling has been the basis for knowing by those who have been eastern. In the West, Logos -- logic, the discursive mind and the analytical intellect -- has been the base; while for us in the East, the feeling heart, the synthesized mind, has been the base. I deny the validity of the term 'eastern' or 'western' but, still, religion has been the predominant note in the East.
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