One thing will be helpful to understand. There are three approaches towards reality. One is the empirical approach, the approach of the scientific mind -- experiment, experiment with the objective world, and unless something is proved by experiment, don't accept it. Then there is another approach, of the logical mind. He does not experiment; he simply thinks, argues, finds pros and cons, and just by mind-effort, reason, he concludes. And then there is a third approach, the metaphorical, the approach of poetry -- and of religion. These three approaches are there; three dimensions, one reaches towards reality.
Science cannot go beyond the object, because the very approach makes a limitation. Science cannot go beyond the outer, because only with the outer experiments are possible. Philosophy, logic, cannot go beyond the subjective, because it is a mind-effort, you work it out in your mind. You cannot dissolve the mind, you cannot go beyond it. Science is objective; logic, philosophy, is subjective. Religion goes beyond, poetry goes beyond: it is a golden bridge, it bridges the object with the subject. But then everything becomes a chaos -- of course, very creative; in fact, there is no creativity if there is no chaos. But everything becomes indiscriminate, divisions disappear.
I would like to say it in this way. Science is a day approach: in the full noon, everything is clear, distinct, boundaries, and you can see the other well. Logic is a night approach; groping in the dark only with the mind, without any experimental support, just thinking. Poetry and religion are twilight approaches; just in the middle. The day is no more there, the brightness of the noon has gone, things are not so distinct, clear. The night has not yet come; the darkness has not enveloped all. Darkness and day meet, there is a soft greyness, neither white nor black -- boundaries meeting and merging, everything indiscriminate, everything is everything else.
This is the metaphorical approach.
That's why poetry talks in metaphors -- and religion is the ultimate poetry; religion talks in metaphors. Remember, those metaphors are not to be taken literally, otherwise you will miss the point. When I say "the inner light," don't think it in terms of literal understanding, no. When I say "the inner is like light," it is a metaphor. Something is indicated, but not demarked, not defined; something of the nature of light, not exactly light -- it is a metaphor.
And this becomes a problem because religion talks in metaphors; it cannot talk otherwise, there is no other way. If I have been to another world and I have seen flowers which don't exist on this earth, and I come to you and talk about those flowers, what will I do? I will have to be metaphorical. I will say "like roses" -- but they are not roses; otherwise why say "like roses," simply say "roses." But they are not roses, they have a different quality to them.
"Like" means I am trying to bridge my understanding of the other world with your understanding of this world -- hence the metaphor. You know the roses; you don't know those flowers of the other world. I know those flowers of the other world and I am trying to communicate to you something of that world; I say they are like roses. Don't be angry at me when you reach to the other world and you don't find roses; don't drag me to a court -- because I never meant it literally. Just the quality of a rose is indicated; it is just a gesture, a finger pointing to the moon. But don't catch hold of the finger, the finger is irrelevant -- look at the moon and forget the finger. That is the meaning of a metaphor; don't cling to the metaphor.
Many people are in deep murky waters because of this: they cling to the metaphor. I talk about the inner light -- immediately, after a few days, people start coming to me, they say, "I have seen the inner light"! They have found the roses in the other world... they don't exist there. Because of this metaphorical language, many people simply become imaginative.
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