The Vedanta Scientific Community regularly discusses the connection between Science and Vedanta in ‘casual’ manner. This discipline, has been well-known as Sankhya Vedanta, is even more essential to the young generation since orthodox and dogmatic approach have proven fail to spread the substantial ‘message’ of religions. As such, radicalism is ubiquitous. Indeed, such issue is fortunately not a case of our (Hindu Indonesia) worrisome. Instead, the failure in distinguishing the obscurity between mythical vs substantial subjects to be passed on to our kids in the school system has been a classical absurdity. Consequently, our kids and even we (as the school’s product’) are still doubt about the truth of our faith. As a result, many of us are so easily to be converted.
On the other hand, science has been slandered as a subject that frequently is confronted against religions authority and is separated from our spiritual way of life. This could be true since the termed ‘science’ is narrowly defined in Western and materialistic manner. In this approach, empirical and statistical-based ‘evidence’ is paramount, which is could not be implemented to every conditions and therefore it is not the only way to represent reality.
Currently, Western-materialists mainstream has diverted into ‘Eastern’ paradigm, which based on holistic approach rather than solely relied on an empirical-based evidence. In this understanding, science is no longer to be religions opponent, rather it could be a method to confirm the puzzle of Lila – The Game of God.
In the future, science will be in fact the ‘new form’ of religions. The idea of religion is liquefied as an essence of the truth, instead of bonding box which is currently institutionalized. For this idea, Hindu is the pioneer and will always stand still as the reference of wisdom.
Now, it depends on our action. Will you be with us for this awakening? I am sure, you will. Çantih!
Sadwika Salain
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