_religion and science
Generation next of any era, was more rational and logical than generation past. The obvious result was a constant ascendancy of science and slow degeneration of religion. Faith, slowly gave way to logic and scientific disposition. This has brought us now, to a point, where, we can break genetic code, are on the verge of producing theory of everything, cloning likes of Dollies besides harvesting any organ of the body by stem cells. Religion by now was reduced to ‘Sunday to Sunday’ affair.
It was in 1926, when Heisenberg’s pronounced his Uncertainty Principle and scientists, specially purists, started using language of paradoxes like mystics. Statement from a science textbook like,“Light is both a wave and a particle at same time”, sounded similar to a preacher’s sermon, “human body is both mortal and eternal at the same time”. It seemed far-fetched imagination, when we were told, Lord Krishna could dance with all the ‘Gopies’ in Brindavan at the same time. It is now known that electron can also be at two places at the same time, further, an electron, moving between orbits would disappear from one and appear instantaneously in another without visiting the space between - the famous ‘quantum leap’, similar to Lord Vishnu appearing at the bank of the river, instantaneously from bikunth, his permanent abode, to help Gajendra, the Elephant King in distress, which does not sound absurd any more.
We are now beginning to see a meeting point between science and religion. The possibility of unification of religion and science is most exciting. Our youth have started rising at five in the morning to listen to what swami Ramdev and others have to say. They now understand both mathematical and religious meaning of zero – ‘the presence of an absence’.
Time is, therefore, ripe to initiate scientific research in our old Indian systems like Hath and Raj Yoga and other areas like Aurveda, Vastu Shastra and the like. Scientific vindication is the only way to inculcate the belief mera Bharat mahan.