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THE NATURE OF KARMIC BONDS
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If we try to infer what the missing parts may look like by using only our partial mostly materially oriented knowledge, we get misleading results because the world beyond our known framework differs significantly from the part we perceive. A famous example is the erroneous concept of a limited flat earth that prevented the discovery of new continents (e.g. America) for a long time. The narrow circle drawn around the known continents forestalled all thoughts that other bodies of land might even exist.
Presently our Western science is in a similar limiting situation. It explores a closed range of reality that it cannot transcend. Since the perception of the main leaders of science is blocked by karma, they cannot even imagine that something might exist beyond the range of their concepts. Therefore they deny the validity of events and ideas that go significantly beyond accepted scientific reality and methods. Since these leaders generally determine what type of research or concepts are admissible, the scope of present science is limited.
Yet it makes little sense to deny mankind potential abilities and (subtle) features of this world only because certain individuals think that these perceptions and mechanisms should not be possible. Since there are proven and easy ways to gain insight into these mechanisms and to develop our potential abilities, we are free to discontinue the belief in limiting concepts at any time we choose. Once we start to remove our individual karmic obstructions, our perception and understanding reach automatically into unknown dimensions of our consciousness and radically expand the range accessible to us.9
8 see 'HOW TO DISSOLVE KARMA'
9 Science certainly has value and purpose in its traditional sphere. Yet the limiting nature of its basic assumptions make it unsuited for any unrestricted development of the human potential as the Tattvarthasutra describes it.
Science is often idealized as an incontestable and incorruptible logic method that searches for an objective truth. Unfortunately this idealized image does not hold true in reality. Science splits the partial reality it perceives into a multitude of fields. It then selects a (small) aspect of one of these fields, defines conditions under which it will examine For Personal & Private Use Only
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