Spirituality vs Science

SPIRITUALITY

* spirituality does not mean any particular practice. It is a certain way of being. To get there, there are many things to do. This is like a garden in your house. If the soil, sunlight or stem of a plant is in a certain way, it won’t yield flowers, you have to do something. You have to take care of those things. So if you cultivate your body, mind, emotions and energies to a certain level of maturity, something else blossoms within you – that is what is spirituality. When your rationale is immature, it doubts everything. When your rationale matures, it sees everything in a completely different light.

EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY

Going to the ocean or to the mountain and seeking an experience may be beautiful, you must enjoy the world the way it is, but you must understand, the fish in the ocean doesn’t think it’s a spiritual experience, nor does the mountain goats think the mountain is a spiritual experience because they are there all the time. If you bring them to the city, they may think it’s a spiritual experience. It is the breaking of the barrier between you – something broke within you. You were in a shell. This broke and became a bigger shell. What I’m saying is, if you get used to the bigger shell, it feels the same way as the previous one.

SCIENCE

* Science is the application of knowledge and Understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.

* Science is a 'study of the physical and natural world using theoretical models and data from experiments or observation'.

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IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE

* Science as a refinement of the reasoning process which helps us understand the world around us, to identify facts and to group those facts within theoretical frameworks which become models of our universe.

QUESTS

We human beings want to inquire into our surroundings, into what is happening within and around us. We want to observe in order to find out what is happening. If we ask...