In this specialised world, where specialists are in demand – scientists, mathematicians, lawyers, doctors, technicians, and so on – every specialisation, though it may create a certain type of intelligence, is not the intelligence of the whole process of living. It is only a fragmentary type of intelligence, a specialisation. But life is not a specialisation, it is a total thing which involves sorrow, pain, desire, conflict, discontent, despair, affection, jealousy, greed, ambition and death – the whole of it. One has to understand this whole, not just one part of it. To understand this whole, with all its astonishing variety, nuances, subtleties and extraordinary beauty, one must have total intelligence, not a specialised intelligence.