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TULSI-PRAJNA the two realities Aparā vidya i. e. empirical reality and Parā Vidya spiritual reality.
“Vidyām Chā Vidyām Cha Yastatvedobhayam Sah, Avidyayā mțityum tirtvā
Vidyayāmritam asnute." Both the realities are useful for human beings. One helps in removing the miseries and the other in granting the immortality to them. Thus, the two realities--one the subject of science and the other subject of spirituality are the basic facts of human life and provide us two different kinds of knowledge-science and spirituality. Science & Spirituality: Two froms of knowledge :
Human minds are capable of obtaining two kinds of knowledges or realising two modes of consciousness oftenly termed as the rational and the intuitive. The one is associated with science and the other with religion or spirituality. Fritjof Capra has distinguished the above kinds of knowledges by quoting some of the philosophical and religious principles also. Socrates said; “I know that I know nothing." Laotzu said: "Not knowing that one knows is best." The Buddhists also talk of the relative and absolute knowledge or conditional and transcendental truth. Taoism and confusianism also distinguish between two kinds of knowledges and held them complementary to each other.
The rational knowledge of science is empirical abstract, analytical and indirect, whereas intuitive knowledge is called supra-rational, direct realisation of the ultimate reality and hence holistic and transcendental in nature. It transcends both the sense perception and intellectual knowledge. The knowledge which comes through intuitive experience, is deemed as absolute by the Buddhists for it does not rely on discrimination, classification and abstraction of the intellect which are relative. It is undivided undifferentiated and indeterminate such ness which is mystical in nature. The upanisads call it :
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