 144. Science |
"I think the greatest discovery will be made along spiritual lines.
Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of men. Yet we have merely been playing with it and have never seriously studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been scratched. When that day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has seen in the past four."
-Charles P. Steinmetz, Electrical Engineer
From science, then, if it must be so, let man learn the philosophic truth that there is no material universe; it's warp and woof is "Maya," illusion. Under analysis all its mirages of reality dissolve as, one by one, the reassuring props of the physical cosmos crash beneath him, man dimly perceives his ideotrous reliance, his transgression of the divine command: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." [- Exodus 20:3]
-Yogananda
The theory of atomic structure of matter is expounded in the ancient indian "Vaisesika" and "Nyaya" treatises. Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam.
-Yoga Vasishta
"Let there be light and there was light," on the beams of this immaterial medium occur all divine manifestations, the cosmical essence as light, vibration (om, aum, amen) of life energy. There is no difference of the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land.
-Yogananda
Very strange, very wonderful, seemingly very improbable phenomena may yet appear which, when once established, will not astonish us more than we are now astonished at all that "science" has taught us during the last century. It is assumed that the phenomena which we now accept without surprise, do not excite our astonishment because they are understood. But this is not the case. If they do not surprise us, it is not because they are understood. It is because they are familiar; for if that which is not understood ought to surprise us, we should be surprised at everything – the fall of a stone thrown into the air, the acorn which becomes an oak, mercury which expands when it is heated, iron attracted to a magnet. The science of today is a light matter. . . those amazing truths that our descendants will discover are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak; and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them – for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it, into the framework of the common places of accepted knowledge, and are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.
-Charles Robert Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology
Young people, who today hear in high schools and colleges that man is merely a "higher animal" often become atheists. They do not attempt any soul exploration or consider themselves in their essential true nature, to be "images of God."
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none.
-Emerson
He who imagines his animal nature to be his only reality is cut off from divine aspirations.
An educational system that does not present "spirit" as the central "fact" of man's existence is offering, "false knowledge."
