How can we convince the mind of truths that are beyond science?

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How can we convince the mind of the complete truth of which modern science and justice have said? Yes.
For that, there’s two things. There’s education and there’s purification. Education is intellectual.
Our perceptions are shaped largely by our central body. We see with our senses, but we make sense of things with our inner frame of reference. Interpretation, frame of reference, frame of understanding.
And that is determined by our central body. Central body has primarily the mind and the intelligence. So mind is broadly related to our emotional faculty.
Intelligence is related to our rational faculty. So we study the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita. By then we gradually start understanding, yes, there is more to reality than that which is perceivable, reducible, measurable.
So the philosophical education itself helps in gaining some understanding that there are more aspects to reality. And after that, there’s also the recognition that we need purification. We need to redirect our emotions.
As long as our emotions are caught in a particular thing, we will see that thing alone. If an alcoholic comes to our hotel, and that hotel also happens to be a bar, and that hotel, many things might be there, but the alcoholic’s eyes will immediately go to what alcoholic drinks are there. Why? Because their desires have led to certain, their intelligences have led to certain attachments.
And those attachments cause their consciousness to be attracted in particular directions. So similarly, for us, some people may come to a temple. And when they come to the temple, they will say, this chandelier, it must be this much cost.
This design, this might be this much cost. And they say everything in terms of cost, in terms of money. Even if somebody on their birthday gives them a gift, 250 rupees.
50 rupees, 75 rupees. You just see everything. But if one is too much motivated, one will see everything in terms of money.
So, similarly, we are often having a particular mindset. So gradually as we become purified, you can see purification in terms of lust, or greed, or anger. Yes, those are impurities.
But impurities can also be settled up in terms of the ways we think, our attitudes. Certain attitudes can also be, which need to be purified. So as we become purified, by chanting Hare Krishna, by remembering Krishna, then gradually our mind develops a taste for spiritual reality.
And as the mind develops a taste for spiritual reality, then naturally, that spiritual side becomes more important than the material side. So Krishna says, राजविद्या राजविद्या पवित्रमितमं प्रतिक्षावःमं धर्यान्सु सुखामं करत्माविद्या He says that, राजविद्या is the theme of knowledge. And then he says, प्रतिक्षावःमं It is something you can directly experience by our, by our purification, by the elevation of our consciousness.
So by education, by studying the Bhagavad Gita and purification, by practicing Bhakti Yoga and connecting with Krishna, we can rise to a higher level of consciousness where प्रतिक्षावःमं we perceive higher realities ourselves directly.