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of the inner world. Rather than accepting its inability, the mind simply says there is no inner world. In that way, it can hide its impotence.
For centuries, the East worked only on meditation. Meditation cannot create technology. Meditation can give you tremendous experiences of your immortality, of the universal godliness, of an oceanic ecstasy. But meditation is incapable -- in the same way as mind is incapable -- of knowing anything about matter. That's why, in the East, the mystics have denied the very existence of the outside world, saying it is maya, it is illusion.
It is the same logic. Mind denies the inner world -- that there is no inner world, no spiritual world, no soul, nothing divine, all is solid matter. Meditation, on the other hand, in a similar way denies that there is anything real outside -- the real is inside.
That's why the East has remained poor -- at least outwardly poor; its richness is of the inner. The West has become rich outwardly; its poverty has remained of the inner.
The man I conceive of in the future should not deny either; there is no need -- there is no conflict, there is no contradiction. Mind is for matter, and matter is a reality not an illusion. Meditation is for consciousness, and consciousness is a higher reality -- not a by-product of matter, or just a hypothesis; it is an experiential fact.
Without any exception, whoever has gone in has found consciousness.
I want the new man to rebel against the West and to rebel against the East, because they have divided man and they have divided man's conception.
They both have created a certain kind of poverty, when man can be rich on both the sides. There is no conflict at all. You can meditate in a golden palace; the gold in the palace is not going to disturb your meditation.
There is no need to renounce the world; in fact, it is so surprising that the people who have called the world illusory have insisted on renouncing it. If it is illusory, what are you renouncing? If it does not exist, then where are you going? What is there to renounce? Your every sense says the world is real -- it is just that your meditation is incapable
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