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RECOMMENDATIONS OF SEMINAR ON “SPIRITUALITY AND SCIENCE” HELD On 10-12 May '93 at JAIN VISHVA BHARATI INSTITUTE, Ladnun—341306 Rajasthan-India.
Preamble :
The three day "All India Seminar on Spirituality and Science" (10-12th May, 1993) jointly organised by Indian Society of Philosophical Research and Jain Vishva Bharati Institute (Deemed University) Ladnun, expresses its deep concern over growing gulf between science and spirituality. For a balanced growth of individuals society and humani. ty and to realise a peacefnl divine life on earth. The Seminar stressed upon the need of parallel development of scientific temper and spiritualistic outlook. In fact, spirituality and science are "two in one or one in two”. Everything is spiritual from the point of pure consciousness but they are also different in the from of realisations which from the subject of different types of science. Spirituality sees the truth in its wholeness and its outlook is synthetic while science tries to understand the truth in its particularity with an analytic method. However for the harmonius growth of our personality both are essential. The scholars, while accepting independent status of spirituality and science from the parctical point of view, they advised for the synthesis of the two. Unfortunately they are separated from each other today causing various types of pervertions and posing a menace of wholesale destruction.
In order to make this synthesis practical, they reco. mmended as follows :1. Because so called religions have caused many malprac
tices in society, the term 'religion' has lost its credibility and remained no longer an inspiring term. Thercfore, to use the term 'spirituality' in place of 'religion' is more desirale. .
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