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ness. In the non-dual frame, thought-time goes to abeyance. Both deal with ending of violence, terrorism. war and usher in sustainable peace. Both deal with ending human misery and suffering.
Spirituality bestows perception of the wholeness and this leads to emergence of values. It leads to a new ethical outlook. Spirituality will lay foundation for a global ethics, without which peace and genuine progress are not possible and never will be.
Many eminent scientists have stated that the present objective science must restructure itself, which implies that holistic or true science must include subjective research in its realm. Karl Pribram stated, “Brain science must deal with the awareness of awareness. It could no longer afford to shut out that part of the world which we call subjective” 8 Seen in this light, there is no conflict between holistic science and pure religion, between physical sciences and the science of spirituality. These are two complementary disciplines in the life of man and the real aim is to produce fully integrated human being.
Knowledge and the activity of knowing is a cerebral activity having many built-in limitations in it. The process of knowing is the process of measurement with the known, it is an additive process. In spirituality there is no additive process. The Buddha said, "Ignorance is the cause of sorrow”. I know this, but it does not eliminate my sorrow, or take away my ignorance. It is just a statement for me, unless I discover the truth myself. All knowledge or ideals cannot transform the human psyche, these are sterile. Spirituality is to see in the present, which is ever new. Everybody has to undertake psychological experiments and actually verify for himself, so that he really begins to see that these are true. We are spiritual when enquiry is going on and we are ourselves exploring, instead of sticking to a conclusion. Only the truth can liberate the mind from its own ideation, to see the truth, the mind must realize the fact that so long as it is agitated it can
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