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Saint Vs Scientist
By shiva on Aug 18, 2009 | In Uncategorized | Send feedback »
Okay, I have been thinking about the 5Ws of Saints and Scientists.
I am a scientist but with a strong meditative and philosophical bent of mind.
In India, there are more saints. Saints are more valued, respected, prayed and relied on than Scientists, for that matter of fact, no other occupation or any human / individual.
I had this question - why ?I believe in saints. I pray to them and I am attached to them.
You may think that I am NOT scientific. But I say, saints and sages are more scientific, extremely active souls, down to earth and practical. I learnt a lot from their life style.
Here is my take:
What I see very very common among all these trans-souls is - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Social responsibility is much much more complex and challenging than any complex system available, which is dynamic and right infront of us to understand and uplift/contribute. I should say that taking up a social responsibility voluntarily is the greatest challenge a human can ever dare.
Hence, if a human wants
- to be dynamic,
- be a solution provider,
- desires to be in an eternal space of problem, solution and challenge,
then the best and ideal responsibility is Social Responsibility and social service.
That is possibly the reason why saints take the social responsibility and service as their main occupation. 99% of the saints start with solving the physical problems of common people such as diseases, ailments, mind oriented depressions etc.
The saints are so attached to their objective that they dont care about their own comforts and living. Why ?
Again, it is the challenge to become consciously unconscious of the Physical existence and transcend into the Invisible World of MIND - thats where the eternal happiness resides for grab.
Bottom Line:
Saints can answer Scientists and rest of human race but never the other way.
This takes to the next interesting conclusion that:
Hierarchy exists and is as Natural phenomenon as human beings. Some humans are evolved, some are not.
This when extrapolated will clearly indicate that :
Stratification of human beings in a society is a "Natural Phenomenon" which brings to a new discussion - Is equality possible in a society ? if so how, if not how to bring about ?. I will attempt that at a later stage.
