"When I say 'Greek mind,' what do I mean? The Greek mind is one aspect of the duality of minds. The Greek mind thinks, speculates. The approach is intellectual, verbal, logical. The Hindu mind is quite the contrary. It doesn't believe in thinking, it believes in experiencing. It doesn't believe in logic, it believes in an irrational jump into being itself.

"The Greek mind speculates as an outsider, standing outside, as an observer, an onlooker. The Greek mind is not involved. The Greek mind says if you are involved in something, you cannot think – you cannot think scientifically. Your observation cannot be just; it becomes prejudiced. So one must be an observer when one is thinking.

"The Hindu mind says you cannot think at all when you are standing outside. Whatsoever you think, whatsoever you try to think, will be just about the periphery. You cannot know anything about the center. You are standing outside: penetrate in. So much penetration is needed to know that ultimately you become one with the center. Only then do you know rightly; otherwise everything is just acquaintance, not knowledge.

"The Greek mind analyzes; analysis is the instrument for it to know anything. The Hindu mind synthesizes. Analysis is not the method – not to divide into parts, but to look for the whole in every part, always looking for the whole in the part. The Greek mind, in Democritus, comes to atoms, because if you go on analyzing, then the atom becomes the reality, the last particle, which cannot be divided.

"The Hindu mind reaches to brahman, to the absolute. If you go on synthesizing, then ultimately the absolute, the whole, is reached. If you go on dividing, then the last particle, the last divisible particle, is the atom. If you go on adding, then brahman, the ultimate, the absolute, is reached.

"The Greek mind could develop into a scientific mind because analysis helped. The Hindu mind could never develop into a scientific mind, because synthesis can never lead to any science. It can lead to religion, but not to science. The Western mind is the development of the Greek seed.

"So logic, conceptualization, thinking, rational analysis, they are the foundations for the West."