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clarity does not give you explanations -- but it makes you able to live, it makes you able to love. Clarity does not give you meanings but it gives you significance. Again, they are different things. A meaning is a mind thing, a significance is a life experience -- it is existential.
I have heard, Albert Einstein used to say 'Religion without science is blind, and science without religion is lame.' With a little change, I would like to agree -- but that little change has much to say. Einstein says 'Religion without science is blind.' That is not right. Rather, 'Religion without science is lame, and science without religion is blind' -- because religion gives eyes. It gives insight into reality, it gives insight within and without. Yes, it is true -- without science religion is lame, it cannot walk.
You can see it in the East, the East is lame -- actually lame. And the West is blind, actually blind. Science gives energy, power, speed, technology, but it does not give you insight into what to do with it. It gives you insight only into matter, but not insight into your own being. So the insight into matter goes on becoming greater and greater technology, and you don't know what to do with it. And when technology is there you have to do something with it. Science gives power without giving you wisdom, that is the danger. And religion gives you wisdom without giving you power, that is the danger. In the East, people have eyes but no power to do anything.
The future will have a new kind of synthesis happening: science and religion meeting and merging into each other. Then man will not be lame and man will not be blind.
Kabir's approach will give you many glimpses of the future, what kind of religion is possible. It may shock you many times, it may be disturbing to you many times. But remember, all growth is painful -- and with Kabir you can grow immensely.
Kabir is not interested in giving you any answers -- because he knows perfectly well there is no answer. The game of question and answers is just a game -- not that Kabir was not answering his disciples' questions; he was answering, but answering playfully. That quality you have to
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