Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India The scientific quest and the spiritual quest have been the two great quests of humanity but somehow a feeling has developed that science is antagonistic to spirituality. We should examine whether this is really so or it is because we give to science and spirituality rather narrow meanings. The scientific…
Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India In earlier times it was possible to find a single individual who was a philosopher, an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician, a biologist and an artist all at the same time. There have been several great thinkers proficient and knowledgeable in more than one field of human endeavour. Slowly, as…
Ex-Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India Though modern science is of relatively recent origin, having started with Galileo about 350 years ago, it has made very rapid progress and completely transformed outwardly the manner of our living. It is said that our life outwardly has changed more in the last one hundred years than it did…
Introduction According to the dictionary the word ‘myth’ includes several things: i) Completely fictional stories conjured up by a writer’s imagination. These can obviously have no scientific basis. ii) Stories about supernatural beings usually based on religious beliefs, often referred to as ‘mythology’. These are subjective and vary from culture to culture; therefore they are not universal truths and cannot…
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