Passage 18

In English

Scientists do not acquire any experience of life

It is by exploring the internal that man will discover the truth and not by going far out into space. The entire preoccupation of science is with the study of matter. What is it you find when you go far out into space? There is nothing there. If you need air, you have to carry it from the earth. Travel in space has thus become a kind of picnic! You carry everything you need from here. There is nothing there. The water you need and the food you require lie at your feet. All the metals, the diamonds or anything else you want are all underneath your feet. Above the head (in space) there is nothing. They spend to go out into space. But when they need food, they have to come back to the earth. A proper understanding of how the senses function is a function of science. Without knowing how to control the senses, what is the use of all other scientific knowledge? Many scientists ultimately qualify themselves for places in the mental hospital. Burying themselves in a dark laboratory and performing experiments all their lives, they expire without acquiring any experience of life.