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is blissful because now you are not aware of the problems. Problems are there. but you are not aware. So at least for you it appears there are no problems. This is the ostrich method: close your eyes, and your enemy is not there because when you cannot see -- this childish, juvenile logic says that when you cannot see something -- it is not: unless you see something it is not. So if you cannot feel problems they are not there!
When I say "to be a Being", to transcend humanity, to become Divine, I mean to be totally conscious -- to be not only an island, but the whole continent. This awareness will also lead you beyond problems because problems are there basically because of you. Problems are not objective realities: they are subjective phenomena. You create your problems! And unless you are transformed, you will go on creating problems. You solve one, and really, in solving that one, you will create many because you remain the same. Problems are not objective things. They are part of you. Because you are such, you create such problems.
Science tries to solve problems objectively, and science thinks that if there are no problems man will be at ease. Problems can be solved objectively, but man will not be at ease -- because man himself is the problem. If he solves some problem, he will create others. He is their creator. If you give a better society, the problems will change, but problems will remain. If you give better health, better medicine, the problems will change, but problems will remain.
Quantitatively, there will be as many problems as ever because man remains the same; only the situation changes. You change the situation: old problems will not be there, but there will be new problems. And new problems are more problematic than any old problems because you have become accustomed to old problems. With new problems you feel more inconvenience. That is why, in our times, we have changed our whole situation, but problems are there -- more fatal, more anxiety creating.
That is the difference between religion and science. Science thinks problems are objective, from outside somewhere -- that they can be changed without changing you. Religion
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