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SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY Ramjee Singh
The Predicament :
Modern science (as the west has evolved it) has had its triumphs. Modern technology has dazzled the eyes of Man and inflated his Ego. The second half of the 20th Century has witnessed striking advances in scientific knowledge and technological achievements. They have brought immense benefits to mankind-plenty of foodstuffs better health, more leisure and near victory over space and time. On the other hand, it has created many dangerous problems like pollution, fast erosion of natural resources and psychological problems of alienation and de-personalisation. However, the most dreadful problem is of human survival due to the threat of thermo-nuclear war. The other predicament is equally confounding that of disparity. On the one hand there is plenty, on other hand, grim poverty, disease and illiteracy. On the one hand there is growth of secular political structure, on the other hand there is rise of the most vulgar form of religious fundamentalism and fanaticism. We are aspiring for One Warld' or 'World Government'; while national chauvinism has gripped both the 'Free World' and 'the Communist World'. At no time in human history the movement for human rights was so strong as today and yet it has never received as vulnerable attack as today. Nothing has done more than science to loosen the hold of magic and superstition on the minds of men, and yet nothing has made this universe more mysterious. The known universe has 10 billion galaxies and each galaxy contains a hundred billion stars. (See James Jeans: The Mysterious Universe, Raynor C. Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour, Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown etc.). Last but not the least, it is a fact that
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