Chopra:Science validates India's spiritual beliefs

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Science validates India's spiritual beliefs: Deepak Chopra

 

IANS

 

NEW YORK: Science is today corroborating and validating what people

in India believe is part of their spiritual inheritance, says new age

guru Deepak Chopra.

 

He said that for the last 300 years people have had the superstition

of "reductionism. That is crumbling now, not because of any religion

but because of the technology... Today science is telling us that the

realm of time, space and matter are collapsing into an infinite

possibility. There is a level of nature where everything is connected

to everything else."

 

Chopra said: "Science is corroborating and validating what we believe

is part of our spiritual inheritance... Only universal dharma can

save or transform us."

 

He was speaking at the Global Dharma Conference, which was held at

the Raritan Centre in Edison County, New Jersey, and saw about 2,000

youths take part.

 

The Hindu Students Council, comprising the second-generation Indian

American community and having 70 university chapters across the U.S.,

was the primary driver behind the conference, according to a press

release.

 

Among those at the conference were New Jersey Governor James E.

McGreevey, India's Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar

Joshi and musician Zakir Hussain.

 

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Shankaracharya of Kanchi Jayendra

Saraswati sent video messages.

 

Governor McGreevey said: "The concept of dharma as universal law was,

of course, first developed in India - and is central to many of the

great religions that developed there... What I think is important

about this conference is your recognition that dharma has cognates in

other religions and other faiths."

 

Minister Joshi said: "While on the one hand the level of consumption

in the industrial world has scaled new heights, on the other hand

there is a steep rise in diseases like cancer, heart stroke,

diabetes, schizophrenia and other psychological disorders, HIV/AIDS

etc, and also a phenomenal increase in violence, sex crimes,

alcoholism, drug addiction marked by a gradual alienation of the

youth from the society, institutions and values...

 

"Instead of a disintegrated society and fractured personalities we

must build, if we want the human kind to survive, an integrated

society composed of 'total and balanced' personalities of its

constituents." This, Joshi said, could be built only with the help of

dharma.