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you are avoiding something about yourself. Yes, if you go on working on external things.... One day science may start becoming more religious -- it has already started -- and it will be a great boon to humanity; but when? It will take centuries, but meanwhile what happens to you? -- one thing. The second thing: if the people who are working in science don't have some interiority, then science will take even longer to become religion. Just think: if einstein, max plank, eddington, people like them -- if they were great meditators then that utopia would have already happened. By the end of his life, eddington started feeling that he had missed something. Just at the end he started feeling that the world was not like a thing, it is like a thought -- but just at the end. Just at the end he started feeling that whatsoever he had thought about this world was not right... and so was the case with Albert Einstein. Just in the last days he started feeling that the mystery was not destroyed -- rather, it had become even deeper than before.
If one works in the scientific world, one day one will start feeling it... but this will be a feeling. It remained a feeling with Einstein -- he died a non-meditator.
My suggestion is -- just a humble suggestion because I don't say to do it -- my suggestion is: go on working on whatsoever external things you want to but side by side go on working on the internal too. Let there be a balance so that if you can contribute something, good; if nothing is contributed, you don't miss it! And if you become silent, if you become aware, humanity becomes aware through you -- because who are you, who am I? We are not separate!
A single individual becoming silent, blissful, is a part of humanity becoming silent, blissful, happy. Something in humanity has happened through him. Humanity will never be the same again because this man meditated.
It has never been the same since Buddha or since Christ; and they were not working on anything external: they were working on their internal, their innermost core. But since Buddha arrived home, became enlightened, humanity has never been the same -- cannot be -- because Buddha is absorbed
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