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As Swami Vivekananda said: "Now-a-days it is asserted that man is infintely progressing, forward and forward, and there is no goal of perfection to attain. to. Everapproaching, never attaining whatever that may be, it is absurd on the face of it. Is there any motion in a straight line? A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle, it returns to the starting point. You must end where you begin, and you begin in God, you must go back to God. What remains? Detail work through eternity. You have to do the detail work.
TULSI-PRAJŇĀ.
Modern day religion unfortunately has become obscurantist and dogmatic. It has lost the discipline of a scientist. Science is not anti religion, nor it is anti-dogma, for it has its own dogmas. If religion can shed its dogma, science can also shed its Omnipotence, religion and science can co-exist as they must. If it is the application of Science which poses danger to humanity, then religion must work in tandem with science so that it is applied to purposes which bring peace and harmony, instead of war and discord.
Limitation of the Human Mind
Science and religion are not enemies of each other. They are complementary to each other. The sphere of Science is matter; while that of the religion is the mind. Science observes the observable; religion goes beyond and look at the Force that unites all that is observable and unobserved.
Science is rational; the scientific method is logical. But the very process of scientific thinking has its inherent limitations. We are forced to think with the help of opposites. "The point where the application of opposites become impossible or superfluous shows exactly where our Relative thinking is forced to stop" (Paul Roubiczec). knowledge is the only knowledge which the mind is capable of acquiring. Mind can gather knowledge only by breaking up an experience into the duality of the
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