Science and Spirituality.

September 2, 2005

These are historic times.A major transformation is taking place in the mind of man.Old ideas are dying giving place to new ones.We are beginning to realize that our basic identity is not mind or body,bound by birth and death,time and space-but more fundamentally,it is spirit.,an infinite consciousness which is universal and eternal.Dawning is the awareness that consciousness is not a function of the mind,centered in the physical brain.No,quite the opposite,

infinite consciousness,our real Self,created mind and the cosmos as well.

Consciousness is beyond time and is unaffected by death.Today there is growing scientific confirmation that consciousness is fundamentally infinite

and eternal and that oue minds deceive us into believing otherwise.Finding

from such diverse sources as Jungian psychology and dream analysis,

experimental ESP phenomena in the field of parapsychology,age and past life

regression during hypnosis,reports of out-of the body and near-death

experiences hv done much to show the thinking world that consciousness is

not limited by time or space.

Generally accepted now are the phenomena of clairvoyance and telepathy,of

prophetic dreams and unusual knowing at a distance such as described in the

life of Edgar Cayce.He,for instance, could diagnose and successfully treat a

person's illness often at a distance,sometimes by phone,sometimes by just holding an object once worn by the individual.There are lot of predictions he made during a span of 40 years.And another famous person Carl Jung showed thru his work that people in intensive analytic therapy could retrieve

information thru their dreams and intuitions of a dimension beyond their own

personal life experience-could be in touch with what he called the collective

unconscious, a dimension in which all of mankind's experience from the beginning of our species time on earth and covering the entire breadth and width of our existence since,is recorded.

Even the hard sciences like physics are drawing closer to realizing the

fundamental laws of spirituality.The leading edge of physics is discovering that

the planet is not a separate piece of dead mineral in an indifferent,unloving,

unconscious universe.The cosmos and all in it are coming to be recognised

as one entity, inseparable,whole and alive with consciousness, a manifestatio

of the one,Universal Consciousness-permeated with love.The oneness of the

universe is being recognized as the material expression of the oneness of

consciousness-which is experienced in the heart as love.As duality-seeing

reality as composed of separate and distinc entities as opposed to one unified

whole-crumbles,so do the differences between peoples and religions.

A nondenominational science of consciousness is developing which is defining universal laws and principles governing the expansion of conscousnes

thereby bringing science closer to spiritulaity and the great spiritual systems

closer to one another.We are coming to recognize that all the great world religions emerge from a common universal reality,and although they use different symbols,ceremonies and forms,they all express the nature and

dynamics of the one universal and eternal consciousness,or God,from which all matter and energy arise.If all this is indeed true,if all the religions are

fundamentally one, if the entire cosmos is a manifestation of Universal

Consciousness-and in fact we ourselves are Universal Consciousness beyond any limit,if our real self is,in fact,infinite and eternal-why are we not aware of

this? Science is beginning to look to spirituality for answers to this timeless

question-to the great world religions which hv from the start declared that the

material world is a manifestation of spirit or infinite consciouness.The ancient

wisdom of sages and saints tells us that the crux of the problem lies in the mind, which deceives man into believing himself separate and limited.This is what Adi Sankara also propounded.

Although the eternal ocean of spirit is oneness without a second,infinite

consciousness wills a msterious spell upon itself by creating the mind.So

attracted by the mind's powerful forces,by the dual world of pleasures and pains, desires and impulses,ego and the senses,infinite consciouness

mistakenly perceives differences and limitations-separate names and forms-the appearance that it is separate from itself-duality.Why the limitless willed

this delusion upon itself is creation's greatest mystery or what we call maya.

The great spiritual systems describe the mind as a bubble in magnitude,

compared to the vastness of the ocean of spirit or pure consciousness.Infinite

consciousness attaches itself to the filmy wall of the bubble-mind,erraneously

identifying itself with the finite and limited content within.But the bubble can

burst.The deluding film that prevents our personal consciousness from realizing its universal nature can dissolve,freeing the personal to merge back

into the universal-to realize boundless,eternal awareness,pure unlimited being,

unconditional love and bliss.Spirituality has much to teach psychology about

this path to transcendence.It is to make the mankind aware of its true naure

and the realtionship between it and the God, is the main essence and lesson

of the Teachings of Lord Krishna in His immortal Gita.

Hare Krishna.