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Scientific research and spiritual quest have been two large searches but somehow humanity has developed a sense that science is antagonistic to spirituality. We will examine whether this is really true or is it rather to give science and spirituality mean very close. The scientific quest is to discover the outside world order in time, space, energy and matter. The spiritual quest is to find order in our consciousness. While the whole of reality is constructed by both, matter and consciousness. Why search for the understanding of order in the external world is antagonistic to the pursuit of understanding the order in the inner world of our consciousness?
If we look at its origins, we found that both searches were originated from human inquiry. We humans want to question what surrounds us, what is happening within us and around us. We observe in order to find out. If we ask the question, "Why are we questioning?" No response. It is not always for a purpose. We are inquisitive by nature. The purpose is a derivation of it, not the goal of the question.
For example, technology is a derivative of science, but not the reason of science. The scientific quest was there long before the development of technology. We were just wondering why the sky is blue, and why the sun rises and sets, why the trees grow, why there are many species around us, why eclipses happen and all that, long before the technology is applied.
Likewise, questions like - Who am I? What is the purpose of life?, Why is there so much conflict and violence within me? Is it possible to find some kind of order in my conscience? What is death? Is there something beyond death? These are all questions in the field of spirituality. As a result of this search have organized the different religions that have arisen as a byproduct. There were great thinkers who found some truth to their consciences, they found a certain order, that order could call it love, compassion, harmony ... As a result of that state, tried to communicate the truth they saw and they became religious leaders around which organized religions. These institutional religions were developed as products of spiritual quest in the same way that developed the products of scientific research. Why
research has advanced so much, but when it comes to understanding ourselves, to find some order in our consciousness, humanity as a whole has been an utter failure?
With the possible exception of a handful of men as Christ or Buddha, who may have found the answer for themselves, other people have not found it. This has created a lopsided development in the society in which, in turn, is creating a global crisis. One of the reasons why scientific research has progressed so far, is because there is a tremendous order in nature. Nature is a plan, work through certain rules and science has been trying to discover. The scientist has no idea why there should be laws and why they should be universal, but finds that it is. We do not know why the peculiar nature follows logically that man has developed the called mathematics. The entire universe is an order which we have been able to determine using some basic assumptions, using a lot of math and logic to them and deriving results.
found that the results thus obtained square with what happens in nature which means that somehow this logic operates in nature. We can only say that such is the nature of the order in which the universe manifests. We are students of nature has given us a consciousness that can observe and think. Through this we can find a cause and effect, but we can not answer why nature is so.
The other reason why scientific research has developed so much is because the observer is generally separated from the observed.
When my conscience and my senses are watching something and doing an experiment on that object, that object is separate from me. There is not much interaction between the observer and the observed and therefore is relatively easy to be objective about what we're seeing.
This breaks down when the quantum world of elementary particles like the electron, for which the mere act of observation seems to affect the state of the particle. In science, mistakes humans are rapidly detected because the findings are tested by other people. In this way science tries to eliminate the subjectivity of a particular observer. When we find the religious quest we are looking at ourselves and the observer is the observed. Therefore, the interaction between observer and observed is huge and becomes more difficult to be objective. One can illustrate this with an example: If we try to see how we sleep, our consciousness decreases because when we are asleep we are unaware. So the mind can not see herself going to bed. Moreover, the order is not present in consciousness has to be discovered at the end disorder.
scientific inquiry in our understanding is additive in nature. What Newton did during his life we \u200b\u200bcan now learn in two or three years in college and based on this discovery even more. The knowledge of what people have done before it helps us learn and discover more quickly than that.
In the spiritual search, knowledge does not help. It may indeed be an obstacle if one clings to it. What the Buddha discovered and said, I can read it and find the knowledge of Buddhism, including what has been said about the Buddha. All that knowledge would make me a professor of Buddhist philosophy, but Professor Buddhist philosophy is not Buddha! You can not find the order that was in the consciousness of Buddha only through knowledge. Therefore, a student of Buddha has to look back and rediscover what Buddha discovered to find the order in his own conscience.
You can not just learn it as knowledge. One requires more than knowledge, that is a revelation (insight) of truth. Without a revelation, a direct perception of truth, no alteration of consciousness. At the turn of science also a revelation is essential but only the first person to discover the truth. If Einstein had not had a revelation deep on the issues of space, time, matter and energy, his mind could not have found a total perception did not exist in classical physics. His mind had all the knowledge of classical physics, but also had some freedom from the known to have a revelation of the truth that was so totally out of the change of the known.
All the great scientific discoveries are the result of those disclosures (insights). After the scientist has been revealed and found a truth, is given as an equation, logically deduced and verified. From there, it is taught not through of revelation, but through logic. Science is not taught to students in the same way they actually happened, it is taught in a rational, logical ways. Knowledge and logic have a learning sequence and these sequences is sufficient because that way it works, despite not yet having had the revelation! In the spiritual quest, if you do not have a revelation one has only ashes.
Thus there are several difficulties inherent in the spiritual quest, I also think that we have not been smart about the spiritual quest. Look at what mankind has done.
Similarly there have been great scientists as Einstein, Newton, Galileo, Darwin, etc.. There has also been great spiritual teachers. People respect these great spiritual teachers because they have found a certain state of consciousness that was of love and compassion, universal consciousness that was not divided from the rest of the world. But what did his followers? The followers said, "This man is our guru, our master, our savior, our leader therefore must worship him." They took his words and propagated. Created a system, an organization that became the church. The fans did not find the truth, they were satisfied with spreading the word. Suppose that scientists have done it would have built a temple to Newton and had said, "We are Newtonian, Newton is our leader, all that said let Newton be true and to propagate" and another group of scientists have done that for Einstein and say, "We Einsteinian" . "We would have called scientists? But in the field of spirituality, we are very gullible. If a man wears a certain type of dress, and goes for some ritual, light the lamp in a certain way, etc.., We accept it as a holy man. We lost sight of the fact that this is also a search inquiry. Unless a human being in order to find his conscience, not a man religious. It has nothing to do with ritual, with the dress we use, with the words we speak or read books. It has nothing to do with skill or knowledge we have in our heads.
The other factor that has seriously bogged down the religious quest is belief. What does a belief for a person who is in search of truth? We have to refer to it in the same way that scientists have mentioned the case of a theory. The theory is not true, the model is not reality. We need to experiment to find what is the truth. But when we have a belief, we are only accepting something without evidence, which has little value. Not reject an idea on value. Acceptance is as false as the rejection. Only when we hear and believe, and do not quickly accept or reject but we live with the question and explore through our observations, can we get some truth as a result.
The religious quest has not gone away because we have interpreted to mean a belief and practice of certain rituals, etc. We think we can provide peace of mind, that we will bring something divine. That is an illusion. Prayer can give us some peace of mind momentarily, but if your mind was disturbed yesterday will be disrupted tomorrow because the causes are still operational. If problems are not solved at the source, the cause is still there and the effect is present there too.
The third thing was institutionalized religions that gave a moral code - which is correct, what is wrong, do's and don'ts. We examine whether one could find virtue through the practice of virtuous actions premeditated. A particular action, when repeated, it soon becomes a habit and you can feel virtuous without finding virtue. That is a serious difficulty in the spiritual quest. If I'm aggressive, violent, hateful, "I can practice non-violence? I project an idea that nonviolence means not hit a person, and therefore I refrain. I get angry, I feel like I'm hitting the other person, but not saying I'm hitting practicing non-violence. But my conscience is still hatred, there is still aggression. I just avoided the outer manifestation. Surely there is violence only when there is no end to the violence in consciousness. To the extent that I am internally violent and I think I'm practicing non-violence, only control. And the self is something entirely different order of violence. All these religious orders only lead to self-control. The self may be necessary, but does not alter the consciousness within us. Self-control will never understanding and ending violence in our consciousness.
Virtue is a state of mind. Just when you finish under the mess. Violence, hatred, jealousy, possession are all part of the disorder in our consciousness. One can not impose order or disorder through discipline. If we do that, it is still a part of the disorder, only control and that control is part of the disorder. The need to impose order oneself arises only when there is disorder in consciousness. Therefore, the order imposed is really mess. Repression is violence within ourselves, so the violence is there and nothing has changed internally. Since then the external action is also important to the extent that self-control may be necessary but does not change anything inside. We are still in conflict when we are only controlling. If we are repressing, fighting with ourselves, then what is controlled and overcome one day have to be checked every day, which means that our whole life becomes a battleground. It is not a religious one in which we are in constant battle with himself. Everything has a cause disorder and to the extent that there exist that cause the disorder. Therefore the religious quest is a search for the causes of disorder in our minds. As a scientist clean their instruments and lenses to ensure they do not distort observation of the facts, the religious man has to eliminate clutter in your mind because she is the instrument with the viewer. The disorder is caused by the illusions and delusions end only when there is a direct perception of truth. The spiritual quest is the pursuit of knowledge both of himself and virtue a result of that search.
Such an approach to spirituality is independent of any rule and is therefore universal as science. Just as there is no such thing as science or American Indian, so there is a religious mind-the mind that has found love, compassion, peace and harmony is not a Hindu mind and a Christian mind or Buddhist. These divisions arise because we have the same meaning to the belief and religion. The truly religious mind is in search of truth, which is based on the unknown. Science also posits truth as the unknown and continually refined their models trying to approach it. They are our illusions that divide us into separate religious communities. Different institutional religions are historical products of man's spiritual quest and the need to be distinguished from the search itself. Also need to distinguish between science and its product, which is technology. Science is the search for truth while the technology is the desire of man power and comfort. The unbridled use of power has created all kinds of environmental problem the world is facing today. Mind resulting from greed and selfishness, not because of scientific inquiry itself. Humanity needs to continue the search scientific and religious without becoming entangled or confused with their products.
really both-the scientific-spiritual quest are two additional research to reality. Any feeling of antagonism between them is the product of the narrowness of vision. Science has to do with what is measurable, religion has to do with the quest to discover and understand the immeasurable. A scientist is not smart if he denies the existence of the immeasurable. There is nothing that can be called anti-science, is far beyond science. The two searches must go hand in hand. We not only need to have an understanding of the laws governing the phenomenon is happening in the external world around us, but we need to find order and harmony in our consciousness. The human mind is incomplete unless it covers both aspects of reality: matter as well as consciousness.
Indeed, the division between scientific and spiritual search itself is a creation of the human mind. Reality is an undivided whole that includes matter and consciousness. Our thoughts, being limited by our experience, divide the external world within our consciousness, in much the same way that our mind divides the space and time, although both are aspects of a single continuum.
two-man scientific and religious, need to be acutely aware of the limitations of the human mind and transcend them if they are to have a holistic perception of reality. Education needs to aim at the creation of a mind that question, that question, which is both scientific and religious at the same time if we are to prevent the crisis facing modern civilization. For
Prof. P. Krishna.
Ex-Rector of the Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi.
Translation: D. Salvador Rojas
April 10, 2005 .-
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