SCIENCE AND GOD-REALIZATION

And it is We who have built the universe, with Our creative power; and truly, it is We who are steadily expanding it. (51: 47) With the advances made in the field of science and technology, the range of human observation and experiment have vastly increased, opening up great vistas of knowledge about the universe. In all spheres of existence and in all disciplines of science, previously established concepts were proved wrong by later research and were discarded. This means no human work dating back 1500 years can claim total accuracy, because all ‘facts’ must now be re-evaluated in the light of recent information. But when one reads and understands the verses in the Quran related to the universe, one can observe that it is free of errors. For a serious reader this can be an evidence of the Quran having had its source in an Omnipresent and Eternal Mind—One Which knows all facts in their true forms and Whose knowledge has not been conditioned by time and circumstances. o Human Mind The human mind has great potential but it can only work in a peaceful atmosphere. In the absence of the peaceful environment for work, the mind's capabilities will remain unutilized—the process that unfolds the potential of the mind will be left uninitiated.