FROM SCIENCE TO GOD-REALIZATION

FROM SCIENCE TO GOD-REALIZATION JOURNEY TOWARDS GOD-REALIZATION W HAT is science? Science is the name of organized knowledge. Science refers to the knowledge in which the universe is studied in the light of objectively proven principles. In other words, science is the systematized knowledge of nature and the physical world. Man has always pondered the reality of the universe. He studied the universe first in the light of traditional beliefs, then in the light of philosophical thinking, and finally in the light of accepted principles of science. In the realm of physical science, we have had three major paradigm shifts in the last four centuries. First, we had the Newtonian hypothesis that matter was the basic building block of the universe. In the early twentieth century, this gave way to the Einsteinian paradigm of energy being the basic building block. And the latest is the David Bohm era when more and more scientists are accepting consciousness to be the basic building block. These shifts have had inevitable consequences for the New Age philosophy, which has moved away from the philosophy of crass materialism to that of spirituality. The period, known as the age of science, began in Western Europe about five hundred years ago. Gradually, there was a general perception that science was the best means of knowing reality. It was generally accepted that what is proved by science is the truth, and what is not proved by scientific principles is not part of reality. In the nascent stages of the scientific age, science became synonymous with pure material knowledge. Since religious realities did not appear to be proven on material standards of reasoning, religious realities were declared unscientific. But the river of knowledge continued to move Mathematical accuracy in the universe is found at such a high standard that one scientist exclaimed that the universe signifies the existence of a mathematical mind.