What is the deep meaning of philosophy? It cannot be ultimate as scientist give ultimate in mathematical formulae and experiments.

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question what is the deep meaning of philosophy it cannot be ultimate scientists give ultimate in mathematical formulae and experiments answer scientists certainly do not give us the ultimate knowledge through mathematical formulae and experiments for the simple reason that these mathematical formulae and experiments describe a model of reality they don’t describe reality itself science since the time of scientific revolution in europe starting with galileo and going through newton thereafter has focused on the material measurable parameters within the universe and based on the observations and the measurements of these parameters science tries to come up with theories which bring some consistency to the observations but need to remember very clearly that these are just the material measurable parameters within reality and at one time in the history of science especially before the start of the last century it was widely thought that science is actually describing reality so for example when law proposes that and there’s action and the atom has particles within it and then basically whatever models of science that were thought of atomic model of matter when there is atom and there is a nucleus and there are electrons all around it so it is widely thought till the turn of the last century that that is how matter actually is now even if it is well true still this did not explain clearly how from that level of reality one came to the level of reality that we experience in our daily lives it means how from atoms that have no color that have no fragrance that have no taste how from there we come to the world found as just filled with color taste fragrance and other sensory stimuli so still at that time although the disconnect between the scientific picture of the world and our observed picture of the world was significant so it was thought that the scientific picture of the world is more real in terms of the atomic models but subsequently the advent of quantum physics where even the atomic and subatomic particles disappeared into a haze of quantum waves science has largely recognized that what it has its models and models that involve theories and formulae but whether these describe the reality of nature that is highly questionable because how do we know that a scientific theory is describing reality it is describing the world as it actually is one criteria we could say is that it works something that works should be accurate it should be describing reality if that if the workability would be the criteria for discerning reality then science is in big trouble because relativity and quantum physics both work but both give us a picture of the world that is contradictory not just contradictory it is violently contradictory in many ways it is irreconcilably contradictory put it simply quantum says that matter everything is ultimately made of waves whereas relativity requires that everything be made of matter as solid particles even if how small they may be they have to be solid particles you know which is the actual reality is something for which science itself has no criteria to deciding because the mathematical formulas of each work in some ways and we are able to do a sophisticated level of technological processing using both theories.
So, currently scientists are proposing that may both these theories may be variant expressions of some further underlying theory which they call it the grand unified theory GEP or TOE theory type of thing but scientists despite several decades of research have not been have not come much closer to theory in fact the more scientists have tried to find out about the theory then further they seem to go because the gap between these two seems to be growing Steven Weinberg said that we made great progress in the last few decades but the more progress we make further we seem to be to the solution because the greater are the gaps in our knowledge that are remaining and I even I Stephen Hawking said that actually I am happy to announce that humanity’s quest for knowledge will never end which is just his euphemistic way of saying that our knowledge will forever stay incomplete and we will not get to carry everything. So, I have talked about this on my website in the article science too short to rope the universe but essentially no serious scientist who knows the state of science will make the claim that science uses the ultimate reality in terms of its experiments and formulae the experiments and formulae in their own way may work but they are working based on a model of reality and that model of reality the disconnect between that model and the reality is becoming more and more apparent because the same reality is modeled in two radically different ways by relativity and quantum theory and both these models work. So, there are scientists who say that maybe there are multiple levels of reality and science is exist one level of reality and the ultimate level is still far away from science.
So, science certainly does not give us the ultimate reality then what about philosophy now it is not that all philosophies are of equal value in terms of their explanation of reality some philosophies may explain reality better and some may not explain them adequately. So, when the philosophy is based on human speculation its capacity to explain things will be inadequate but when the philosophy is based on divine revelation then the philosophy will explain things adequately. So, the Vedic scriptures give us such a philosophy and the deep meaning of philosophy is ultimately to understand our spiritual identity to understand the reality of God’s existence God’s love and the necessity of returning back to Krishna if you want to become truly happy in life.
So, how do we know that philosophy uses a higher reality than science? Science deals with physical reality philosophy means metaphysical reality meta means higher or above. So, generally science deals with mechanism not causes science deals with the house of things but philosophy deals with the why’s and why is a far more fundamental question than how and science may make things better in the external world but it is philosophy and its application to spirituality that makes people better that can change human beings to become more self-controlled more free from their self-defeating impulses more tolerant more caring more sensitive more responsible in terms of their duty not just to God but to their other fellow human beings it is this transformation spirituality which any transformation of human beings to spirituality that enables us to access the deepest levels of reality. So, the deep meaning of philosophy is that we are not our body we are not our mind we are not even our intellects we are ultimately the soul and the souls longing for love and happiness will be satisfied only when the soul connects with Krishna