BELIEF
AND SCIENCE
The age of Kali led people
into a paradox. People feel destitute and deserted when there is a program to
protect preserve and save.
In
every tradition on the globe, we find the stories of protecting-angels. We also
find stories of protecting-saviors. Many fairy tales exist about the
protecting-angels, which the grandparents narrate to the grandchildren. Nascent
as they are, children believe better in the protecting-angels than the
grown-ups. Can we really call them grown-ups, when they narrate what they do
not believe?
A child in
the west easily believes in Santa Claus. A child in India, likewise, instantly
believes in Hanuman and Ganesha. But as humans grow they lose their beliefs
somewhere on the way. The grown-ups believe that they have enough reason. But
is it reasonable to jettison a value without a scientific enquiry into it?
Science cannot develop sceptics. Science should develop dispassionate
inquirers. Be inquiring. Be dispassionate in your inquiry. Then you will find
the truth in protection. Do you know that all beliefs are scientific? Only the
science relating to them is lost.
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