Question: There
is a big laboratory in Presidency college, but their research is not
increasing our national wealth in any way – why is it so?
Shri Shri Thakur: That is because one cannot be committed to a fulltime employment and simultaneously doing (real) research work.1
The research which is inspired from the thought of addressing the need
of the country, caring for the welfare of the fellow countrymen by
ensuring continued improvement upon their health, education, wealth and
peace, is the real research and this is what is endorsed by the
`Arya-dharma' as well. The scientists of other developed nations verily
do this and so without beating the drums of dharma they happen to be the
real dhaarmik.
Question: People
say there is no connection between science and dharma – rather they are
like the opposite poles. Science increases worldly comfort whereas
dharma brings in renunciation.
Shri Shri Thakur: Science itself is the guide to the nectarine path of life. Science verily shows us how to lead a blissful life, how to live and grow unabatedly.2 That
is why dharma itself invites science. Science is the vision of
spirituality. In the process of realising the soul, all that it beholds
gradually become visible. The knowledge gained in this process is the
real science, and also the real spirituality.
Foot notes:
1 – "Almost
all paid work is done from desire, not from impulse: the work itself is
more or less irksome, but the payment for it is desired. The serious
activities that fill a man's working hours are, except in a few
fortunate individuals, governed mainly by purposes, not by impulses
towards those activities." ¯ `Principles of social reconstruction' by BERTRAND RUSSELL
2 – "Science
can, if it chooses, enable our grandchildren to live the good life, by
giving them knowledge, self-control and characters productive of harmony
rather than strife…..Then at least we shall have won our freedom." ¯ `What I believe' by BERTRAND RUSSELL
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