God & Science From The Dharma of Kalki

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Scientist have been working for quite some time in the proving of God. Following is an interesting exerpt by Acharya Sri Akshyamati.

 

Enlightened as a teen, she is the author of the unsigned "The Dharma of Kalki" a popular book with Western seekers of mukti, recently translated into Russian and widely read in the former USSR.

 

 

She writes:

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Nowadays it has become a norm to relate everything to the presence of a scientific temper. But sadly. this terminology in iteself has been the victim of erroneous belief. True scientific nature primarily demands a mind that is receptive and open to new perceptions, howso ever far fetched they may seem in the Newtonian-Cartesian mode of thinking.

 

Let us acknowledge and all pervading fact of life. In a way, all science too is poetry when it comes to the expression of natural phenomena. All science and related technology today owe their Genesis to the 1st postulate of mathmatics which is not subject to any debate. It is a hypothesis empirically defining the concept of "ZERO". If we take away this hypothesis the entire world of science would collapse. If we consider an inverted pyramid, the pointed apex at the bottom could be said to represent that one thought on which an entire mountain of creation rests. Spirituality in essence, is going back to that root point and being able to perceive things from there.

 

And wonder of wonders how many of us are even aware that the definition of "ZERO" was the outcome of a spiritual sadhana by an Indian mystic, Bhaskaracharya. True creativity is thus born out of nothingness, even if it may be in the midst of chaos.

 

What then is poetry? Poetry too is the creation of the human mind in the flight of imagination born out of a single spark of inspiration from an external or internal source.. In the context of this how would you define science when it cannot exist in theory without the concept of ZERO.

 

The above is not to undermine the scientific in any way. Can one strand of a mat be utilized to judge the quality of the whole mat? It cannot, because it would be "Unscientific" to do so-it does not fulfill optimal sampling requirements. How then can we use one aspect of creation to fathom the laws of creation! It would be grave folly and this is the pitfall of today's generic thinking. Through brilliant advances of the mind we have been able to understand alot of "how things work" in creation. For instance we know that Silicon and Germanium have certain qualities which enable their usage as semi conductors of electricity. This facilitates their usage as switches in circuits. But then why the electrons, protons and neutrons in them are capable of behaving in a particular fashion is termed an "attribute" of the element, which is a given in life. We can only observe and exploit this aspect of creation, we cannot create it. Or we know that pennicillin is an antibiotic. WHy it has this property can only be ascribed to its being a gift of Creation.

 

 

Of this it is absolutely necessary to be aware. The fact that science has given us alot of things to live with, but nothing, really, to live for......."

 

cont www.vedicshamanism.com

 

 

Later she writes:

 

The word "God" has become a common part of our lexicon in everyday conversation. Some of us say "We believe in God" and others say that "We don't". Others are indifferent to the question Even amongst us who believe,there are various preceptions regarding this aspect. Some of us ascribe a specific form to God, while others swear that God is formless. All these perceptions emerge from the realm of belief, a belief or adherance to a particular religious system or denomination. No religion demands blind belief in its most original form. However our laziness coupled with convenience makes us take the easy way out. We become either "believers"or "non believers". And there are some of us who are just indifferent.

 

With deference to our so called intellectual states and scientific temper, we do not even address this basic issue of ignorance in our lives, an issue which has a bearing over our entire lives. We do not possess any knowledge as regards to the "existence" or "non existence" of God. We possess merely "concepts" and "ideas.".............