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Science Vs. Spiritualism
i am a curious software engineer. i am not a very tech savvy guy. however i like software... this is my own feelings about technological exploration... i think where technological exploration ends, from there starts the spiritual exploration... technology, after a certain point of time cannot give peace to human soul... in these days of gadgets, it will be really surprising if someone can prove that a person owning more powerful, more multifunctional gadgets is happier than someone who does not own these... today a guy may long for a laptop, tomorrow may be for an ipad, day after tomorrow for a phone with a 2 mega pixel camera, then may be for a gadget with a 5 mega pixel camera, then... i can’t imagine any more... where is the end of such demand? will it at all make the guy satiated? that's the basic question....
the innovation just for the sake of technological advancements will never be able to fulfil the needs of our soul...
Science without spiritualism creates blind consumerism. We, therefore, must use science blended with a mind of spiritualism to get the inner peace. Otherwise it may create a monster in the modern society.
i would like to end this discussion by a quote from Swami Vivekananda...
“Intellect has been cultured with the result that hundreds of sciences have been discovered,and their effect has been that the few have made slaves of the many – that is all the good that has been done. Artificial wants have been created; and every poor man, whether he
has money or not, desires to have those wants satisfied, and when he cannot, he struggles, and dies in the struggle.”
the innovation just for the sake of technological advancements will never be able to fulfil the needs of our soul...
Science without spiritualism creates blind consumerism. We, therefore, must use science blended with a mind of spiritualism to get the inner peace. Otherwise it may create a monster in the modern society.
i would like to end this discussion by a quote from Swami Vivekananda...
“Intellect has been cultured with the result that hundreds of sciences have been discovered,and their effect has been that the few have made slaves of the many – that is all the good that has been done. Artificial wants have been created; and every poor man, whether he
has money or not, desires to have those wants satisfied, and when he cannot, he struggles, and dies in the struggle.”
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