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SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
Dashrath singh
Introduction :
Human civilivzation and culture grow from experience and self analysis. We have passed from the age of religion predominontly based on faith and superstion and more over on authority, to the age of science, reason and rationality. The former was the age of subjectivity and the latter the age of objectivity. The subjectivity of religion, though have its own merit, yet brought many unhealthy practices in society making it stagnant, dull and inert. The objectivity of science, tò a great extent overpowered the evils of superstitious religion and provided humanity with tools and technique increasing physical and material comforts. However, its arrogance and selfcentricity could not observe the vital aspects of humanity which caused multipule crisis, facing the world society today. Now time has come to unite both the subjectivity and the objectivity; religion and science; reason and faith; outer consciousness and inner consciousness in order to form a new synthesis-the synthesis of science and spirituality ushering to new civilization and new human personality-a personality which Acharya Sri Tulsi calls spiritual-scientific personality. The inadequacy of modern science & Techonlogy:
The modern science and Technology based civilization is inadequate. Its inadequacy has been reflected in various ways by the poets, scientists and philosophers. The author of Maya in Physics, Dr, N, C, Panda holds "During these five centuries there has been accumulation of knowledge in every branch of human endeavour. There has been knowledge explosion in physical sciences, biological science, social sciences, technology and humanities. In
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