We use love to express our feelings for our dear ones and logic to win over others. Life does not stop at building relations and winning arguments. Our spiritual masters tell what lies beyond. Interestingly, they too use love and logic to say it.
IF LOVE binds man and woman, what binds man and man? The answer is logic. Logic is a potent force that connects people. It is akin to magnetism in the
world of materials. A logical or sound argument meets our appreciation. An illogical one meets disapproval.
If logic were not there, the society and its systems would collapse. Entire governance: political, judicial and executive, is built on logic. All institutions: financial, educational, commercial, social, function on logic. The knowledge house of man, sciences and literature, stands on logic. All economies are built on logic. If anything anywhere in the world does not pass the test of logic, it becomes irrelevant, foolish. It requires several years of training. Our schools and colleges provide precisely that. The system rewards logic, ridicules idiotism. It subdues cacophony in the mind. It clears our thoughts to bring out the truth.
Logic is the language of the learned. It puts the man on the highest pedestal in the order of the world. It dictates our lives. We could not say of Atma or Paramatma, but logic can be truly our soul. Love overtakes logic when one is faced with choice of personal over common. You do not take care of your child for any logical reasons. You do not sympathize with a mishap struck individual considering pros and cons of sympathizing. In defending his country a soldier does not go into the logic of killing or not killing another man.
The bonds of love are deeper; of logic, superficial, easily eroded by another argument. Love is universal, is alike in all living beings; logic only confines to human beings, that too to the literate few. Love is primary. It sustains life. Logic is secondary in the great design of life. The men of wisdom adore love; the clever men, logic. If there is a God, his language has to be love, not logic.
No school or university teaches love. Love is primordial but gets corrupted by logic. Love has no sound; logic has a loud voice. The road to love often passes through logic; otherwise you would not understand love. Spiritual masters have used logic to show us the path of love and beyond. Buddha used logic twenty-five hundred years ago to teach us nirvana. In our times, J Krishnamurti used logic alone to explain direct perception of ‘what is’. Lately, Osho mixed meditation and logic to help raise our consciousness beyond the mundane world. However, we pick up logic, leave aside love, and miss what lies beyond.
