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us satisfaction in our life. But broadly speaking these values may be classified as external and internal valuesone related to external reality and other relating to internal life; one dealing with the things and the other with consciousness in deeper level of our life. The first is the value of science and the second the value of spirituality.
The knowledge of external things are useful. This makes our life situation easy and provides comforts and leisure-a suitable state for the growth of our consciousness. Vinoba said that science is necessary for us, for it beautifies our life. With the knowledge of creation it provides us powers to make life better.
No one can under-estimate the contribution of science in the progress of society. It has removed superstitions to a great extent from the mind of human beings. It has brought revolutions in the field of medicines, surgery, communications management, administration and in many other fields of human life and made this whole world as a single house.
Dr. D. S. Kothari said, “Nothing has done more than science to loosen the hold of magic and superstitions on the mind of men. Science limits the possible. By continually deepening of our understanding of nature, science tells us more and more of what is permissible in nature and what is not. It has banished the superstition about external world." (Atom & Self. P. 12) But it has miserably failed in what Dr. Kothari called "more dreadful superstitions of the inner world : greed hatred, and Delusion”, the roots of all violence and wars (Ibid P. 13).
The value of science can also be observed in the rational and objective explanation of the natural phenomena. Dr. D. S. Kothari remarked, “Equally we recognise as the greatest lesson of science, that che behaviour of matter is, in all its aspects fully explicable on an objective basis. To understand natter needs no direct referen mind or self or any supernatural agency. In the realm of natural science reason is supreme". (Ibid, P. 28) However,
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