Question: Isn’t spiritual life with its longing for another world an attempt to escape from reality? Answer: Yes, spiritual life is an attempt to escape – not from reality, but to reality. Let us objectively examine what people call as real life. It is the life of perpetual struggle from the womb to the tomb: struggle…
Answer: Certainly. Spirituality helps us to see sickness as a pointer to a fuller life. Our current complete existence is two-dimensional: we are spiritual beings residing in material bodies. Our material needs and duties are natural and necessary. But if we confine our activities and ambitions to the realm of matter, we reduce ourselves to…
Answer: You will be surprised to know that the whole scientific enterprise is founded in faith – inescapably. Let’s see how. Consider the statement of physicist Gerald‘t Hooft, “We [physicists] are trying to uncover more of that [the universality of our scientific theories]. It is our belief that there is more.” Obviously, “our belief” means…
Answer: Yes and no. The spiritual philosophy, explained in the Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic texts, is a science in its own right, for it is systematic, coherent, verifiable and repeatable – all characteristics of any good scientific theory. Unfortunately, many modern scientists define science as the study of matter alone, thus rejecting spiritual truths as…
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