What is the destination of good non-spiritual people such as Stephen Hawking?

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As far as the destination of say some people like Stephen Hawking very much respected as a great scientist but he was not a believer in god what is their destination? First of all once it gets to specific people it’s very difficult to know because what their exact consciousness was and that is something between them and god so i would say that it’s not healthy for us to try to speculate about specific people’s destination having said that we can look at broad patterns and make some general inferences there are in a when a human being is living in this world there are many different aspects to their life so like even in middle age somebody may be a great person maybe great in office they do their job so well completely lousy at home they can’t get along with anyone at home and they may be brilliantly successful at office but pathetic failures at home or some people may be great at language they get grammar they get science but when it comes to math you just don’t get it so it says there are different fields in which some people are very good in some fields they’re not good in other fields so success in one field does not necessarily compensate for failure in other fields somebody can be a great great professional but if familiarly they are poor in their family life they’ll be a wreck and their professional success won’t substitute for that so success in one life does not necessarily mean success in other work it does not necessarily mean that because they’re successful in this field they have to be successful in that field if they are poor in that field then they will be poor in that field and that will also have its consequences so similarly applying this there may be people who will be brilliant Stephen Hawking the way he battled against his debilitating disability and still uses brilliance to come up with many remarkable advances in physics that is both a testimony to his the ability that he was gifted and by which he tapped his ability so as far as the realm of physics is concerned he was he is he is as a human being also we could say the way he struggles against his disabilities and he succeeded that’s also very great now as spiritual understanding is concerned as I said success in one field does not compensate for failure in another field there is science and there is science scientism is scientific imperialism scientism is the idea that science alone can answer all questions scientism is the idea that science is omniscient that any and every question that is there in the world that now actually scientism is unscientific why it’s not just different from science scientism is different from science but scientism is also unscientific why because scientism there’s no proof that science has the answers to all questions you cannot even conceive of the experiment so Einstein himself he said that gravity can explain the falling of objects but it can’t explain people’s falling in love with each other there’s a whole aspect of human behavior which can’t necessarily be explained by gravity if we were simply a physical object governed by physical norms then say now if I have this mobile if I drop it I won’t drop it but if I drop it the mobile has no free will whether to fall or not it is going to fall but we all have and because of our free will only we can hold each other responsible and accountable if I come to one of you and slap you something hey if you love why did you slap me now when you ask why did you slap me what does it mean that means I had a choice not to slap me and you’re asking why did you lose your choice in this particular way so we all function based on the assumption that we have free will that’s how we can have accountability that’s how we can have relationships Einstein survived the German and when the persecution happened he fled from there and came here to America so now give it to the mind that if scientism were true that would mean the Nazis because they are just biological robots and they are functioning according to the programming of their brains they have no free will but we can have no system no relationships no system of justice no accountability of the people now why am I going to all this like I’m just saying that even an eminent scientist like Einstein doesn’t understand so science is a very powerful body of knowledge a powerful tool for acquiring knowledge about the physical world but there are many things beyond the physical for which science is a deviance now Stephen Hawking was a scientist who towards the end of his life moved from science towards scientism he moved from science towards scientism so in his second book half his books he wrote the grand design there he says that philosophy is dead and therefore science has provided answers to all the questions but then the rest of his book is actually philosophy because when he is talking about how everything began now there is no scientific experiment if you read most of his book there is no scientific experiment to prove most of the things that he did there are good things of course but the point is when he talks about the origin of everything that is not a scientific question that is a philosophical question what is science science basically observes the world around us and tries to discern patterns when Newton saw the fruit falling he asked why did this fruit fall what made this fruit fall and then this is the law of gravity so science discerns patterns into observable world around us and by discerning those patterns it helps us better understand the world but for science to discern these patterns first of all the world has to exist and the patterns have to be existing in the world and science can discern them but why does the world exist in the first place that is the question science can’t answer why are there patterns in the first place that is the question science can’t answer and the science magazine on its 100th anniversary published a special issue in which they had 125 questions and the first question was so with the point I’m moving towards so all this is that I am and Hawking was brilliant as a physicist he was inspiring as a human being but as far as his take on philosophical spiritual question was concerned he was out of his depth that’s why we don’t consider him as authority on spiritual subjects and this is the way he has lived his life this is the way he has cultivated his consciousness accordingly we get a destination