K: I tell you that analysis is not the way of understanding. Using reason, I give
you the logical sequences—all that is only an explanation. Why don’t you see the
truth that analysis is not the way of understanding?
A: What you say is logical.
K: Somebody tells you that your approach is false because it is based on the
intellect which is partial, and that partial examination is no examination at all.
What you have done is to come to a conclusion based on logic; we are not talking
of logic. Logic has led you to analysis.
A: It is partial analysis.
K: It is like saying that I love my wife partially.
A: We are using the same instruments here that we have developed in order to
understand the outer environment, to understand nature. But they are inadequate
in this area.
K: They are not adequate. The analytic process involves time. As it involves
time, it must be partial. The partial is brought about by the intellect, because the
intellect is part of the whole structure.
A: What is the instrument which explores when you put the question? When we
put the question, we go back to the intellect.
K: You began by saying that the intellect is the only instrument of examination. I
say that the intellect is partial and, therefore, your examination will be lopsided.
Therefore, your examination is invalid.
A: It is very clear that the intellect is partial and cannot see, but it starts working
through habit.
K: A began by speaking of cause-effect, effect-cause—those are processes of
analysis. Analysis implies time, and in such analysis there is the analyser and the
analysed. The analyser must be free from past accretions, otherwise he cannot
analyse. As he cannot be free of the past, analysis has no validity. Seeing that, I
say it is finished. Therefore, I am looking for another way.
A: This is the shortest summary—with logic, logic is wiped out.
K: I see that analysis is not the way. That perception frees the mind from a false
process altogether. So the mind is much more vital. It is like a man walking with
a heavy burden, and the heavy burden is removed.
A: But with us the burden comes back.