Re:_Re:__Feasibility_versus_Truth,_or_Making__It_‘Real’

[Guest guest]

Greetings Robert:

 

No one can deny the relevance of science in religion.

Einstein's famous quotation: "Science without religion

is vain and religion without science is blind."

 

I believe that Science and Religion are both relevant.

Scientific enquiries will continue with human progress

without any end. Self Enquiry on the other hand will

end when we recognize that 'logic' is the obstacle to

our spiritual progress. When faith becomes the

dominant force, science does become irrelevant. It is

not unusual and logically it makes sense!

 

There is tug-of- war between conviction and suspicion

within the arena of the mind using logic as the rope.

With stronger conviction, we can win over suspcion and

Tug of war will end and we will abe to abandon the

rope of logic!

 

Ram Chandran

 

 

 

--- Robert Watson wrote:

>......... As I said in the

> beginning, Advaita is elegant, profound, and

> plausible. But unfortunately

> that does not also make it true. There is a mountain

> of evidence to support

> the consensus Western 'scientific' view of reality

> as well, even though

> there are ways in Advaita to marginalize much of it

> or declare it

> irrelevant. And it would be naive of anyone to ask

> for so-called proof of

> the truth of Advaita, since no such ultimate

> assurance is normally available

> in other areas of inquiry, including in rigorous

> science, and proof itself

> is a concept more appropriate to mathematics and

> logic than to philosophy.

> So that's why I asked what is available to make

> Advaita 'real' rather than

> just a plausible philosophy in which we have freely

> chosen to believe. The

> only strange thing to me is that, omitting any rare

> individuals who have

> already fully realized, everyone here isn't asking

> the same question, at

> least internally.

>

> But I think it would probaby be best for me to drop

> the question at this

> point.

>

> Robert.

>

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