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Dimension of Green Politics.”
In the modern times, Tolstoy, Ruskin and Gandhi have pleaded for "spiritualisation of politics” and even economics. Spirituality cannot remain on an ivory-tower. It must come to the earth and in our practical life. Spirituality is a "yes to life" and never “No to life". Therefore, we have to evolve an earth-oriented, ecological and science-based spirituality. This is the same as 'creation-centred spirituality promoted by Mathew Fox. The Indian view of life is integral. It combines the four ends of life (Purusārthas) : Dhārma (Duty), Artha (Economic and material), Kāma (demands of sex) and Moksha (Salvation). There is no dichotomy between the material and the spiritual rather there is a synthesis between the material welfare (Abhyudaya) and spiritual salvation (Nihshryas). We cannot think of a world without science. That is as Sri Aurobindo says, "Refusal of the Ascetics”. But also we cannot deny the existence of spirit--that will be the ‘Denial of the Materialist'. Reference : 1. Kothari D.S., Science and Humanism-Delhi Univer
sity Convocation Address, p. 8. 2. Science and Culture, ed. Indrasen, Pondicherry, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram, 1951, p. 114. 3. Science and Spirituality : An Exploration, p. 19. 4. Kothari D.S., Science and Humanism, p. 11. 5. Kothari D.S., Science and Ahimsa Centre, Ahmedabad :
Gujrat Vidyapith, 1983, p. 14. 6. Science and Spirituality, An Exploration, Varanasi
Sarva Seva Sangh, p. 21 (statement is attributed to
Vinoba's answer Dr. Smith's query). 1. Kothari, D.S., Some Thoughts on Science and Religion,
New Delhi. 1977, p. 2. 8. Ibid., p. 3 (quoted from the Wisdom of the West). 9. Russell, B., The Science to save us from Science, 1950
Quoted, Science and Ahimsa Centre, 1983, p. 5.
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