"ISN'T A SYNTHESIS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION NEEDED?"

The very idea of synthesis already accepts that they are not only two but opposed to each other.

Unless there is an antithesis there is no question of synthesis at all.

For me, science and religion are two sides of the same coin. Science is looking outwards, religion is looking inwards, but both are the same kind of looking, the same kind of search. They may have different names - that does not matter at all.

Science calls it observation, religion calls it awareness.

Science calls it experiment, religion calls it experience.

The difference of words simply signifies that their dimensions are different.

Science is focused on the object; and remember the meaning of the word "object" - that which hinders, objects, prevents.

Religion is focused on the subject. Without the subject there can be no object; without the object there can be no subject.

The subjectivity of man's consciousness and the objectivity of existence are totally interdependent.

-Rajneesh

Practice will not make you a saint. Saintliness comes out of understanding, not out of practice. It is the flowering of your intelligence, not a certain discipline.

-Rajneesh

Guides are good in ruins, historical places; but you are not an historical place, you are not a ruin.

You are a living being. You are not a ruin. You are a living being. You are here, now, present. You don't need guidance - you need presence. And try to understand the difference.

In guidance you are given certain rules: Do this, don't do that - ten commandments. But you can follow those rules, you can follow those commandments; you will be just an imitator and nothing else. You may become very disciplined but inside you will remain as hollow as ever.

-Rajneesh

The observer instantly changes you. You start doing other things just to look busy, as if you are doing meaningful things. Just a moment before you were doing meaningless things, now you are doing meaningful things.

The same was discovered in the innermost core of the atom: the electrons behave differently when there is no observer. And the moment the scientist and his instruments make them aware that somebody is observing, they change their rules; a sudden transformation takes place.

This was very shocking to the scientists because electrons are supposed to be particles of electricity, that's the meaning of electron. They are supposed to be material, but they are behaving with such great consciousness.

-Rajneesh

Before understanding there is so much to drop, but you cannot drop it.

After understanding, when you can drop it, there is nothing to drop.

These are the mysteries of life, real mysteries of life - tremendously enjoyable.

-Rajneesh