The slow and progressive conquest of Science by Dharma.

Science had not always yielded good results even though it had good intentions.

Good intentions does not always suffice, we need also good consequences.

Science , often, had gave birth to “asuric” forces and uncontrollable energies too risky for human existence on earth but no body wants to criticize this dark side of science.

A “dharmic filter” is indispensable and should be used before deciding to propagate scientific discoveries and inventions and translating them in to day-to-day applications.

Science worked for the young and the old, the proud and the humble. It had no preferences, no morals, no feelings, no restraints. The physicist used it to decipher the beauty and grandeur of nature's grammar.
"Its fury became unleashed on everything around it. If nature attempted to conceal her secrets, Science exposed them publicly with magnifications of 5-million fold. No animal, vegetable or mineral could keep itself hidden. If God's gifts were too bulky for utility, Science chopped them into tiny pieces suitable for scrutiny. If the bits were too small, Science joined them together into larger units. If the cow was too large, a smaller one was bred. If seeds were not desired in fruits, seedless varieties were developed. It peeped into every nook and crevice it could find. GREED seemed to take the driver's seat and showed Science the direction it has to take and the goal it has to attain.

With the discovery that an atom could be split with the release of a tremendous amount of energy, an awesome force became a new toy at man's disposal. Within a short span of six years, an innocent observation was transformed into the most awesome weapon of death - the atomic bomb. A single such bomb smothered a hundred thousand lives! A mad scramble led to the development of thousands of such beasts of doom and death. 

For 4 billion years, the sun, the moon and the earth were the only driving forces in changing our planet's climate. Soon, man entered as a bright-eyed, new contender, with enough firepower at his disposal to annihilate the world many times over. In just one generation man and his machines introduced 25% more Co2 into the atmosphere. In return for the 'favour', the earth retaliated by increasing global temperatures by as much as 5 degrees, turning the earth into a sweltering greenhouse.

If such danger and anxiety resulted thanks to this kind of "unconscious" creativity of science, how it had influenced man's way of living when it helped industrialists multiply their production capacity?

Drowned in an electronic deluge, he began to emulate the characteristics of the machine itself. Turning away from being a warm, emotional being that he was, he became a cold, steely automaton-like robot. Imitating a machine's cold objectivity, many executives began to regard dealing with fellow workers objectively a virtue. Imitating a machine's impersonal responses, many people considered compassion and humanity as  weakness. Imitating the mechanical crushing of a careless hand that crosses a machine's way, magnates pulverized any human obstacles that dared to trespass their empires.

"Life's pace began to increase exponentially. Express-ness became the engine of the age. Holiday Inn Express, Pizza Hut Express, American Express, Kodak Express, instant coffee, microwave dinners, Concords, fax machines in cars were but a few signs of the rush. Machines were meant to save time; instead people found themselves incessantly huffing due to the mad hustle. Tempers also became quick and a new disease was born due to the sustained rush: 'Attention Deficit Disorder'. Man forgot that slowing down can show when to speed up.

"Eventually, though, we learned to slow down. After a millennium of progress, Religion taught us to turn inwards. We had to! It was the only way for man to regain his identity as man, a species much more advanced than animals. Thank God we learned to turn a bit more inward to usher in this Age of Bliss thanks to Swami NITHYANANDA whose you tube videos became a vector of rapid propagation of these new ideas in the west.

Actually the source of Science's significance had always been that it helped the plight of man. But in its outward search using the 'Science for the sake of Science' maxim, it reached a point of diminishing usefulness for humanity.

Confucius once said : 'The ancients, who wished to preserve the clear and good character of the world, first set about to regulate their national life. In order to regulate their national life, they cultivated their family life. In order to cultivate their family life, they rectified their personal life. In order to rectify their personal life, they elevated their heart. In order to elevate their heart they made their will sincere. In order to make their will sincere, they enlightened their mind....'
"And so, men began to enlighten their mind, not only by reading books, but by introspection and by prayer.

He turned his face from 'para-vidya' [worldly knowledge] towards 'apara-vidya' [transcendental knowledge], which the ancient rushis had always talked of.

Einstein's theory of relativity, which challenged the traditional Newtonian view of absolute time, suddenly added new meaning to scriptural references of lifetimes of billions of years, as in the case of Brahma, whose day lasts 8,640,000,000 human years. Speculation in Science about such things as parallel universes, time dilation, black holes and worm-holes provided substance to beliefs about heaven and eternity.

"Soon, views about life and death began to change. Thanks to scientists like DEEPAK CHOPRA who linked atomic science with spiritual science, another new dimension was inserted in to this secular rational thought. Life was viewed as a bridge, and death was not the end. Concepts of Hinduism like the primeval sound “om” or the fusion of masculine and feminine energies as “shakti and shiva” began to be viewed as the secret underlying the creation. 

Science has finally began to reconcile with it's antipode “spirituality”, or at least , I hope.