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values of things indirectly connected with life. The scientific values help in promoting external life and the spiritual values are concerned with the refinement of inner life. Both these values are parallel in human beings and therefore, should go together. They have different functions to do for the fulfilment of complete human personality. Complementarity of Science & Spirituality
It is beyond question that science and spirituality both are complementary to each other. Gandhi said, "If you want something important to be done, you must not merely satisfy reason, you must move the heart also." (y.q. 11. 10. 28, p 340). According to Vinoba both science and spirituality help religion. Science is necessary for religion because it gives it the foundation of true knowledge. Spirituality is helpful in the sense that it gives the knowledge of oneness of all beings on earth and other planetsa real source of resolving inner and outer conflicts. He firmly believed that science needed the controll of spiriluality. If it is tied with the strings of spirituality heaven can come down on earth. (Gandhivad Ko Vinoba Ki Den 1975, P. 101) Dr. D. S. Kothari opined, “Mathematics and experiments unravel the secrets of the atom. On the other hand, self-control and moral experiments had to self knowledge and self liberation. Moral experiments have the same place for the internal world, as physical experiments have for the external world. Without continuing experimentation and assessment, there can be no advancement either of individual or of society”, (Atom & Self P. 10). He held that the contribution of science to spirituality was extraordinarily large. It has to remove the hatred greed and delusion from human beings. Greed, hatred and delusion cannot be controlled except by knowledge and self-knowledge (Ibid, p. 13) “Mathematics is the golden key to communicable truth or reality, the key to non-communicable truth is mystic experience, that is yoga.” (Ibid, P. 14) “Ultimate source of yogic insights and other creative insights is the same by whatever name,
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