Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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Westerner Dr. Brunton states,
What is of special interest is that science is also unwittingly moving into the camp of the hidden philosophy, for some of its latest tenets as formulated by Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, Jeans and others were anticipated and affirmed by the Indian sages at a time when western civilisation was babbling in its infancy.33
In such circumstances, it is obvious that nobody can justifiably insist on total and unconditional acceptance of all that science offers today as the final truth without raising any queries or entertaining any doubts. Strides of scientific progress in the physical world may be of gigantic proportions, but in the spiritual world, let us not forget, it has barely begun to toddle yet.
A call for awareness in religious circles :
On the other hand, the powers that may be at the helms of religious affairs cannot afford to be indifferent to the reality of an urgent need to rationally satisfy the inquisitiveness of modern generation in order to sustain their faith in religion and credence in spirituality of man. It is futile to hope for the present generation to continue its credulousness for long, if timely intellectual assuagement is not forthcoming from the religious hierarchy to slake the newly awakened thirst for knowledge in the masses. Whenever scientific discoveries appear to be in conflict with one's belief - supposedly built on the scriptural basis enunciated by the enlightened - it behoves the orthodox religionists not to oppose them or to turn a deaf ear to them and label their propounders as materialistic charlatans out to deviate the religiously faithful from the right path but to first verify whether such belief does, indeed, enjoy
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