Amma and science and dogs.

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Namaste All, Interesting point here----ONS...Tony.

 

 

Satsang Amma's Words Science needs direction from spirituality

 

Amma's message send from Dallas, USA for the launch of Amrita-ISRO

VRC network launch in Coimbatore, 6 July 2005.

 

Amma bows down to everyone, who are the embodiments of pure Love and

the Supreme Self.

 

Amma is pleased to learn that the inauguration of the AMRITA ISRO

Village Resource Center is being conducted in the esteemed presence

of the Honourable President of India. It makes Amma's heart full

just to think that today, the villages of India are on the path of

development.

 

India's growth lies in the growth of her villages. Yet, when we work

with the intent of improving our villages, it is essential to

realize that we should not spoil their pristine beauty. This beauty

is inherent in the innocence and simplicity of the villagers and the

customs and traditions they have been following for generations.

Just as it is our responsibility to modernize our villages, we

should also see it as our duty to carefully preserve the charm that

our culture lends them.

 

 

Education is not just to increase our brainpower. It should also

have the capacity to touch and awaken our hearts.

 

Amma has heard a story about computers in the future. In the future,

there will be this computer that runs 24 hours a day, and it will be

operated by a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog

and the dog's job will be to stop the man from touching the computer!

 

Though this is just a humorous anecdote, it contains a hidden

warning, too. Although any kind of knowledge first begins as a means

to benefit humanity, as time goes on, man's selfishness gradually

brings it to its destruction.

 

When we accomplish immense leaps in computer education and Internet

experimentation, we should not forget the truth that it is

spirituality that teaches us how to use knowledge with

discrimination. Only man has the power to turn good into evil and

evil into good.

 

In this age, when computers and the Internet are becoming more and

more prominent on the education scene, we should give our students

the capacity and discrimination to distinguish between good and

evil.

 

Amma prays to the Paramatman, Supreme Being that the program

organized here today may become successful in achieving this goal.