Parts Aren't the Whole

OSHO





To analyse a thing, to divide it into its parts, is one thing, but parts are not the whole. They constitute the whole, but they are not equivalent to the whole. The whole cannot be created without the parts. But still the whole is something plus, something more than all the parts combined. That something plus is the mystery .Life can never be known by analysis. Scientific knowledge is achieved through analysis.Religion is quite the opposite; it believes not in division and analysis, but in synthesis. Religion goes on adding, totalling.When everything is totalled -nothing remains outside; and this whole, taken as a whole, is looked at -the divine appears.That's why science can never say there is a God because the very process of scientific analysis can't lead to the total but leads to the part, the minutest part -never to the whole -because it depends on division.
Science can never come to any divineness in the universe, in existence, because divineness is like a perfume that comes out of the whole. It is not mathematical; it is organic. It is not mechanical; it is alive. You can divide me into parts; then put back all those parts, but I will not be found there. You have put everything again in its place; but I am not a mechanical device, I am not just parts accumulated and arranged.
Something more is there, more than all the parts -that something is lost. Logic is analysis, love is synthesis. Analysis can know the material, never the spiritual. That's why religion has always been illogical, and science always loveless.