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Religion & Science are Complementary
H.C. Jain 'Hema
Many persons believe that religion and science both are opposite to each other and the religion seems to reduce the importance of science and vice versa. But, if seen in the light of reason and logic they appear to be inextricably inseparable. Religion (when) divorced from science makes people superstitious and blind followers. India has been an exclusively and exceptionally religious country. Devotion and worship reached inscalable summit with the result that people became narrow-minded and self-centred. Had an attempt been made to explain the principle of religion through reason, people would have been saved from drowning into superstitions and blind obedience to the dictates of religion which in their turn have created hatred against religion among the intelligentsia.
Religion is not based on imagination. Devotion and faith are not lifeless energies. If there were no eternal absolute elements, how this world of diversities would have come into existence. But when the common brain could not understand the mystery of the eternal absolute substances (which are six kinds viz., the soul, the matter, the medium of motion, the medium of rest, the space and the time) it started believing in the existence of some external supreme power in the form of an imaginary God and accepted it as the means of fulfilment of desires. The consequence was that the educated class extricated itself from the eternal religion and in this way religion suffered deterioration and the modern science continued to take the place of religion gradually.
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