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has no place in the affairs of man. It is untruth. "But beyond reason is not anti-reason and beyond physics is not anti-physics. 10 This "beyond empirical experience" is the hard core of religion. This is spirituality. Within. the realm of science, there is no place for mysticism and there the reign of reason is supreme. But the very kingdom of reason and human knowledge is an unfathomable mystery. In other words, there is some amount of mysticism even in science but that is not scepticism or dogmatism, disbelief or superstition, it is acceptance of the limitation of intellecual or conceptual knowledge. It does not reject para-intellecual or transcendental experience. In fact, faith in the pursuit and value of science goes beyond science and reason. It is akin to religious feeling, Faith is science, faith is reason. It is not antireason, but beyond reason.11 There are other vistas of human knowledge like intuition or mystical experience'. In mystical experience, the experience is ecstatic, blissful and happy beyond words. It is aware of its unity with the whole. It is a flood of knowledge beyond anything the mind could have acquired by its normal processes. The current developments in quantum physics, cybermetics and molecular biology emphasise that if anything-the mystery is far deeper than ever thought before. It is one thing to recognise that we have no "solution" but altogether another thing to cavalierly assert (as some people do) that there is no "problem", no "mystery" 12 Here the individuality is retained without separateness."13 There is harmony, peace, perfection, meaningfulness and unity. Hence, we should think that there are no frontiers to the human kind except what we erect ourselves.11 The proportion of the known compared to the not-known but knowable shrinks with the growth of knowledge. The climax of the ordinary consciousness is science. For the Yogic. consciousness, however this world is not the final reality. Hence, religion has been called as the Science of the Infinite. Modern Science and technology also, though. impressive, they have been merged into mystery both in.
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