OSHO HI OSHO

*“Osho: The Man Who Questions All Answers”*

Science is like the body, art is like the mind, religion is like the soul. When the body has its desires fulfilled the mind starts asking for something -- good music, painting, art, sculpture, novels, poetry. When the body is fulfilled the desires of the mind arise, never before it. That is a higher desire, the desire of the mind.

That's what Jesus means when he says 'Man cannot be satisfied by bread alone.' 

Once bread is there, once your stomach is contented, a new desire, a higher desire, arises in your mind; you start desiring beautiful music and poetry and song and dance. Now what else is there to do? The body is fulfilled; psychological need arises.

When psychological needs are fulfilled -- you have Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner and Shakespeare and Milton and Tennyson --  then suddenly a still higher need, the spirit, the spiritual need, arises.

 You start asking, 'What is prayer? What is meditation? What is god? What is the ultimate meaning of life?' Now, even music is not enough, painting is not enough; you want the ultimate meaning of life.

So there is a hierarchy: the science is the base, art is the structure of the temple and religion is the golden peak. There is no need to be worried. Don't look at them as if they are enemies; they are not.

Look at life with a total vision and let everything be absorbed in it; then you have a richness. 

There are religious people who are against science. They are foolish people -- I don't give much value to their standpoint: they have been the cause of the east's misery, starvation, poverty, ugliness. 

And there are scientists who are against religion. They also are foolish, they are saying that bread alone is enough. 

A good house is needed, bread is needed, wife, children -- finished; there is no higher need. They don't know anything about man, they are utterly ignorant of man's real needs. 

Both are wrong.

A great synthesis is needed between religion and science and art, between east and west, between man and woman... between all, a great synthesis is needed. 

_Abridged From:_

*Far Beyond the Stars*
(A Darshan Diary)

_Talks given from 1/7/77 to 31/7/77_

*OSHO*