Re: ...are spirituality and science oppossed...

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances!

     What I am about to write may be totally unpalatable like a tub of salt. I beg forgiveness for using forceful language. But what Swamiji said is absolutely true. There is no denying that.

      Science is material. Devotion to Lord Gauranga Krishna is spiritual. How is it even possible to 'harmonize' them? It is better to call it 'compromise'. There is such a qualitative difference! Can rusted iron be compared to a touchstone? Of course Not. There is no possibility of this oneness philosophy. We have to be careful since such compromises may slowly lead us to cloaked impersonalism.

     We do not need to put our faith in jeopardy to try to achieve what we already know cannot be possible??  It may create confusion and dilemma within us as the only result. What can be achieved by such compromise? Will it help us become a better devotee -- No. So this attempt to harmonize everything for the satisfaction of our own minds may be actually another symptom of our conditioning at work! We may be only trying to subtly satisfy our mind, intelligence and false ego. This is why --- the real reason why -- so many millions of spiritual seekers are bereft of the real truth -- because they may have wanted to hear what they liked or what they thought was correct and not what was actually correct!

      When tons of gold are available in the cleanest place being thrown willingly for free, there may not be a necessity to search for gold in the mud? We are after the real gold and not trying to dig dirt? For getting the pure gold, why should we dig in the dirt? We may not know that there's a gold rush, but when I do come to know, why should we keep dirtying ourselves?  We should say, "I don't want it my way but I want it the true way!"

      What great spiritual realization do scientists have? They are only good at maths. When a scientist says, "I am inclined to think that there may be a reason to believe that this universe may not have come by chance but there could be a possibility of some unknown, inexplicable intelligence that may be the driving force behind it and which has perhaps played a significant, yet unknown role in creation of the universe by some process which we are trying to know and did so for reasons that we do not understand.....", immediately we say, "Oh! This is such a great realization. Wonderful insight! Bravo Bravo!" But is it?

       Just look at it! -- how many unsure words of uncertainty (italics) have been used? This is a masterpiece of ignorance, vagueness and uncertainty that is posing as knowledge -- but it simply reveals the ignorance of these so tiny and hopeless speculations! What are these people trying to say? Layman's lanugage -- "There may be something. I don't know anything."

       When a devotee says, "My Lord Gauranga Krishna is the source of all the material and spiritual worlds and he has created the material world to purify all souls from their foolishness that, "I am God" and to make them realize that, "I am the servant and God is the object of my eternal love." -- This is truth. This is concrete, 100% rock solid truth received from the perfect source and a clear message to impersonalism without mincing any words. This is a realization! If we praised the scientists, how much greater must our reaction be when we hear the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead! Logically we must explode -- we must blow all fuses and go through the roof and roll on the floor crying and laughing in uncontrollable waves of unlimited ecstasy when we see this. It deserves that much proportionate respect.

        So how can mundane speculations harmonize real realization? On the contrary they compromise it.

        In the next article I will elaborate further on this. I intend to split my answers for reading convenience.

Daaso'smi,

Srinath

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