Guest guest Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 The Quest Of Life by Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhardeva Goswami Excerpt from "Science and Scientist - Inquiring into the Origin of Matter andLife" October 2007 Download: http://www.scienceandscientist.org/Science_and_Scientist-October_2007.pdf The first principle of any living being is to live, to save himself. That should bethe starting point of our whole endeavor for progress or knowledge. In theUpanishads we find asato ma sad gamaya tamaso ma jyotir gamaya mrityor ma amritamgamaya. This indicates what should be the primary tendency of our quest in threephases. First, I am transient and mortal, make me eternal. Next, I am ignorant andin nescience, take me from ignorance to knowledge, from darkness to light. Then, Iam in sorrow and misery, guide me to anandam, joy and a fit life there. Theseshould be the real goals of life, and any research must begin here only. Sac cidanandam, satyam shivam sundaram. These should be the subject matter of ourresearch, the line of our approach to save oneself and save the world, to removethe darkness of ignorance and get the light of knowledge, and to remove misery andget the nectar of the sweet, sweet life. Scientific knowledge which avoids or ignores this is simply false, wild goose-chasing. And it is self-destructive or suicidal. At any time atomic researchers can provethat their science devours itself. The civilization already created by it sucks itsown blood. Modern man is feeding on the flesh of his own friends or of himself.Material science and knowledge means only this. But this is not knowledge. Realknowledge must absorb oneself and others in eternal life, full knowledge andpeaceful existence. This is our conception - what the ancient teachers have givento us. They came to spread this sort of knowledge and we came hankering for that.Hungrily we felt ourselves looking for such things. Still we are engaged in thatsort of quest, and that should be the real life for one and all in this mundaneworld. There should not be any other quest or any other engagement. There should benothing of the kind. Then that will be real life. ------------------------- P.S. This text is a part of the article "Attitudes Toward Reality: Exploitation,Renunciation, Dedication - by Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhardeva Goswami" publishedin "Science and Scientist - Inquiring into the Origin of Matter and Life" October2007. For the full article "Attitudes Toward Reality: Exploitation, Renunciation,Dedication" please download the October Issue of Bhaktivedanta Institute Quarterlyonline Newsletter "Science and Scientist - Inquiring into the Origin of Matter andLife" as PDF file at http://www.scienceandscientist.org/October07.html . Newsletter Homepage: http://www.scienceandscientist.org Newsletter Subscription:http://www.scienceandscientist.org/.html For comments and questions please write to editorial team:editors Bhaktivedanata Institutehttp://www.binstitute.org Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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