Archive for August, 2010
Isn’t spiritual life an attempt to escape from reality?
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 [...]
Can spirituality help us when we are sick?
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 [...]
Isn’t scientific knowledge preferable to spiritual knowledge because it doesn’t depend on faith?
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 [...]
Can science by its future progress discover spiritual truths?
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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