Truth, in the relative world, has different versions for different people. It’s very hard to find the absolute one. There came many who invented, discovered, proved, argued but I won’t believe them unless my mind is satisfied with the answer. Science is my tool, curiosity is my strength. I am not so intelligent, nor a genius but passionate to learn.
Ponder and wonder:
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”-Albert Einstein.
Science is very amazing only if you try to enjoy it, not just doing it reluctantly. Whenever I see anything that nature or man has created I start to think about it and thereby my real school of learning starts. I ask my-self how these have been created in the world with such a great perfection and preciseness that even in the little change in the laws and various constants that govern them can lead to cataclysm. And science is the way to learn these. I ponder about the mathematics in the arrangement of the leaves in the plants such a way that it would lead to maximum absorbance of sunlight (Fibonacci equation) and the beautiful mathematics in the arrangement of petals in the flower. When the structure of DNA and its expression was taught I wondered how these very complicated processes can occur inside a cell, which is about few micrometers, with such perfection and preciseness that is really incredible. Have you ever wondered, hydrogen explodes if burnt and oxygen help in burning, but though both are present in water in 2:1 ratio, still then water doesn’t catch fire rather it stops it. What a amazing chemical bond is, that the properties of the individual elements get changed radically when they are in bonded state. Think what would happened if there is change is the law governing the chemical bonding, probably there would be no life on earth. The beautiful harmony between the plants and the animals is very important for their co-existence and the existence of life on earth. And there are lots of examples that man will be amazed when he will encounter his nature, but at the same time he must respect it. We now have forgotten to think and started to comprehend without the realization from our heart. We try to find solution of a problem but forget to understand why this answer works and why it is very important.
Integration:
“In Science there are no water tight compartments, where knowledge can’t flow from one extreme to the other extreme.”- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
Studying Science is useless if man has not got the freedom to think. He may be wrong at some point but can rectify his mistakes and that will the point of self- realization which is needed in every school of science. Who has ever thought that the initial processes of photosynthesis is full of quantum mechanics? In order to get a profound knowledge on any theory man must need the support of other theories for verification of his own understanding. In reality all phenomena of nature are hard to investigate and explain with only one theory. Many theories that man has thought may converge at this point and in some cases it may diverge and this divergence forces us to redefine our older concept, that is, it leads us to think in new dimensions. Material science works to unify all the theories that man has made, spiritual science also supports oneness in everything. Nature with its enigmatic smile has always teased us to explore his mystery.
Curiosity and Human potential to understand:
“ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”- Albert Einstein.
Man must be voracious to learn new things. He must also have keenness to learn those things which contradicts his own observation and understanding, without any ignorance, without any temper and then only that will be the part of real education. Our senses has many limitations but the real conviction about the nature’s play lies in the imagination, now this thinking has no limitations, no boundaries. Imagination is more important than knowledge or else we say that knowledge is just the structure of imagination. Man first needs to learn to think then to comprehend. In the whole life time man still uses less than 2% of his brain capability to understand and memorize things with reasoning, more than 98% is left unused…. hard to Imagine but true. And yes it is possible to make use of our total intelligence; the fundamental concept of Meditation is that human potential is infinite. There is no upper limit of brain to understand, you can use it fully only when your mind is free. Free in the terms of meditation is mystical for a normal person. But yes one can achieve it and great people have achieved too. The number of neuronal connections in a brain of a new born baby is more than the no of stars in the galaxy, think of a grownup person, why can’t its subconscious mind be activated?. For that he must go through very rigorous meditation techniques.
“Education is not about collecting mere facts, it is about concentration of mind.“ Swami Vivekananda.
“Education is not about collecting mere facts, it is about concentration of mind.“ Swami Vivekananda.
Science, learning and its education: knowledge is of no significance unless it is enjoyed by the people of inquisitive minds to learn. Knowledge shouldn't be limited in the minds of great people, it has to reach even the layman. The real science can only be taught only when it has realized from both heart and mind, not just by committing scriptures to memory and then giving forth unrealized abstractions. I can’t speak to others in any topic of science unless I have not only understood it but also felt its spirit from my heart. Science education is not about teaching the sophisticated techniques without the understanding of beauty of the real problem. It is not important to answer only, unless we have not learned to ponder and wonder on the question it is of useless to study. First think why we need to answer the question and it is important because every answer to a question is a new question itself and this is the only way we can go to the core of our understanding and that’s the real beauty of science. No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a person. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is completes. These were philosophy of some great personalities who made education to be a strong weapon to fight against every problem that mankind faces.
Science, philosophy and spirituality-
“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.”- Werner Heisenberg.
The relation between science and spirituality can be found at any level of understanding. Some Scientists never believe in absoluteness but the theories in science relay on idealism. True religion is not about false abstractions, who said that true religion is full of blind believes the real thing is that the world of science is also full of assumptions; man must go beyond these conjectures. For me a sage is not a preacher of superstition, but a glorified soul of real knowledge and a temple is not just a place of rituals but the school of real knowledge. Yes it’s true that one can never find absoluteness in the world of relative but great sages and saints are convicted about the absolutism not just by blind believe but by the dint of reasoning. The spirit of philosophy says that Mathematics has spiritual basis, Physics is poetry of nature, and chemistry is nothing but the magic of nature. Philosophy is the bases and brick of every science, be is social science to economic science. Philosophy is not an oversimplifying thinking of man. Philosophy is the core of every theory. It’s the mother of every human thinking. Science is a double edge weapon but real philosophy teaches us to use science for the betterment of mankind.
“An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.”
—Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Science is never tedious or tiresome, if you try to find the philosophy behind the causes, love behind the nature’s creation and truth behind the mystery.
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