Tulsi Prajna 1996 10

SR No.: 524589
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1996
Total Pages: 166
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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cated people only if we give them sufficient reasoning behind our teachings or teach them how to explore the truth themselves.
Actually speaking the aims of both science and religion are identical and which are to explore the unknown and the trut whats, hows and the whys.
The early man started to discover things as per his needs and this process went on improving on the things discovered earlier. This was the beginning of science. Today's science has explored so many truths or half truths, and has puzzled the common man. He has started thinking that religion is only limited to rituals and that the science is there to discover things. He seldom realises that both are meant to explore the truth but one is more busy in the materialistic world and other one for spiritualism. We must fully understand the principle that whatever truth is explored and is put into black and white, are all relative. There is no denying from either side from the fact that there cannot be any absolute truth. Prof. Albert Einstein propounded in his famous "theory of relativity that truth is subject to certain parameters and is always relative. Similarly, Lord Mahavira in his famous principle known as "Syadwad" or "Anekant" said that every truth is relative to something. Nothing is moving or stationary without relation to something. Nothing is big or small without relation to something. The same event is good for one and bad for another. Not only that, the same event is good and bad for the same person in different aspect, situation and time.
Having said that, I would like to stress on the need for the people of religion to gladly accept the apparent truth which science has discovered and proved. Educated people loose faith in the religion when they examine the negative comments by religious leaders on apparent truths like (a) Earth is round, (b) Earth and planets rotate round the Sun, (3) Eclipse takes place because of the positioning of the Sun, Moon & the Earth, and (4) the most vivid happening of the twentieth century, the spectacular landing by Neil Armstrong on the moon. Similarly, the people of science should also learn to accept the importance of most apparent Truths & the human values taught by the religion, without wbich the man will become demon and destroy the entire planct by its sheer madness. This is equally important with the view of "'unity in diversity", otherwise the distance between science and religion will increase to the extent that it will be detrimental to our very existence.
We must realise the fact that science and religion are not competitive but complementary to each other. Scientist Prof. Albert Einstein, who proclaimed in his last wish that in his next birth, he