One sees that there must be complete unity of mankind, because that is the only way the human race will survive physically, biologically. There must be unity of all mankind, it is essential for existence, but it cannot be brought about through legislation, through bureaucratic dogmas, laws and all the rest of it. But, in spite of 2,000 or 10,000 years, man has merely asserted certain principles, certain ideals, certain conclusions, all verbal, superficial, non-realistic. So when we ask what is the meaning of life, we are faced with the fact that our brain is caught in a groove, caught in habit, in tradition, in the conditioning of our education, cultivating only knowledge, information, and so making it more and more mechanical. If we are to inquire into this very deeply, there must be great doubt.
Thought is a material process, as even the scientists accept.
So there is this quality of the brain which is mechanistic, and necessarily so in certain areas, but inwardly, in the psychological structure of the human mind, there is no freedom. It is conditioned, it is bound by belief, by so-called ideals, by faith. To find out what there is we must begin with freedom, because freedom is the first and last step. We think that through choice we are free, but choice exists only when the mind is confused. There is no choice when the mind is clear.