Science

There is nothing in spirituality that will ever violate science. It’s just that spirituality will venture into areas where science never goes at all. Spirituality, for example, will talk about you. Science never talks about you. That’s the difference—that’s the only difference.

It is very, very sad that 99%, I…

This is the hallmark of gutter knowledge: it will have neither science nor spirituality. This is the hallmark of the gutter person: his words, his convictions, his values will correspond to neither science nor spirituality; it is coming from an altogether different place—the gutter.

He will talk unscientific and unspiritual…

“Why do you want to follow their science? We will follow our science!” This kind of thing too you are hearing these days, no? This science and that science, as if there are multiple sciences all opposed to each other. Spiritual sciences! What kind of foolishness is this? Pandit-ji is

If there is one field from where the most overwhelming evidence in support of veganism comes, it is the medical field itself. Listen to medical science, and it is the medical science that tells you that veganism is the way. Every passing day, more and more, and stronger and stronger…

A temple must really be a university in the purest sense of the word. When people go to a temple, they must return enriched. You are able to listen to a profound lecture, or to an animated debate. You come to know of things that you otherwise do not know.…

Did you invent the mobile phone? Look at your brain and your intellect. Do you even deserve to hold the mobile phone in your palm? Look at how the common man lives: he is making use of cutting-edge technology, sometimes bleeding-edge technology, without knowing half a thing about technology.

We…

Questioner (Q): Scientists have been trying to prove the existence of the soul for a long time now. They are doing research about near-death experiences, out-of-the-body experiences, and reincarnation. Eleven to fourteen percent of the average American population who are mentally and physically healthy have had an out-of-the-body experience at…

Questioner (Q): I have a dilemma related to material progress. When I have debates with my friends and relatives who are good with academics and meditate sometimes, they are of the view that any kind of development, such as mobile phones, internet, etc., is a positive progress for us. I…

Questioner: In any scientific experiment there is a subject and an object, but usually the subject is biased due to his conditioning to some extent. We sometimes see scientific studies contradicting each other as they are reported by scientists having different conditionings. Nevertheless, the general belief is that science is…

Questioner (Q): I am a PHD bioscience student, and my question is about the brain and the mind. There are some studies that postulate that we carry memories from our past lives. If that is true, how and where are those memories stored?

Acharya Prashant (AP): No, we don’t carry…

Questioner: In any scientific experiment, there is a subject and an object. The subject is biased due to his conditioning. We see many scientific studies contradicting each other as they are reported by scientists having different conditionings. Then there is little difference between Science and Faith as both are subjective.…

Acharya Prashant (AP): (reads question) "Only a soul free of desire can taste eternity." She is saying, “Had there been no desires, there would have been no inventions and discoveries, which ultimately led to a better life for all of us. According to an average person", she says, “living a…

Acharya Prashant: There is nothing in spirituality that will ever violate science. It is just that spirituality will venture into areas where science never goes at all. Spirituality, for example, will talk about you. Science never talks about you. That’s the difference. That's the only difference.

When it comes to…

Questioner (Q): Namaskar Acharya Ji. Modern life has created conditions that privilege material over the spiritual. In your view, is it possible to reconcile the best practices of spiritual mind with the high-tech material and super-modern life? If so, how?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Life has always been high-tech, according to…

Question: What is the source of subjective opinion and beliefs?

Acharya Prashant Ji: Your belief in your existence. Just as you strongly believe that you do exist, you equally strongly believe that the world of your opinions exists. You cannot have a staunch belief in your being, and an inquisitive…

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, in a recent session one has heard from you that the binary of going up and down in life, it will continue. It would never happen that you would have either only highs or only lows. So, somebody had asked that the person was experiencing these…

Acharya Prashant: Yes, what you want to say?

Listener: What I want to ask?

AP: Yes.

Question: well, I want to ask something about the generation of Wi-Fi, What is doing that with people, with the earth, all those invisible things (Swirls hand in air). If you can say something,

Question: How did the brain evolve?

Acharya Prashant: There is absolutely nothing. You could say, “Just material exists.” And then a few chemicals get together, a few chemicals get together, then few more chemicals, longer chains, longer polymers which are today called as proteins. These proteins get together and they…

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, how is the knowledge of the scriptures different from the knowledge of science?

Acharya Prashant (AP): No scripture ever offers you knowledge. There is a great difference between knowing Science, and Spirituality. Science is knowledge. Science is incremental. A certain fellow does something, and the next…

प्रश्न: सर, जैसा कि हम सुनते हैं कि प्रौद्योगिकी के बहुत नुकसान भी हैं। तो क्या हमें प्रौद्योगिकी का प्रयोग बिल्कुल नहीं करना चाहिए और इसे यहाँ ही रोक देना चाहिए?

वक्ता: तुम बताओ बेटा, क्या करोगे। तुम्हारे सामने और कोई चारा है? और क्या करोगे तुम?

Questioner: What is the definition of spirituality?

Acharya Prashant: First of all, the definitions that pre-exist in the mind must be cleared. Spirituality has nothing to do with religious customs, religious observations, or anything that pertains to a sect, a cult, a particular path, a particular group of people, a

Question: What is the difference between science and technology? What is science? Where does science come from? Is science the mother of technology? Is science the logic behind technology?

Answer: Science comes from direct observation of the fact. One pays attention to the thing right in front. One looks deeply…

प्रश्न: अगर जानना धर्म है तो विज्ञान क्या है?

वक्ता: विज्ञान पूरे तरीके से धार्मिक है क्योंकि धर्म है सत्य को जानना। और विज्ञान भी सत्य को ही जानना चाहता है। लेकिन विज्ञान एक छोटी सी चूक कर देता है। समझते हैं:

Acharya Prashant says:\n“If you wouldn’t call this foeticide, then what would you call it? When an unborn child is killed in the womb, you consider it wrong—you call it a sin, a crime. But what do you call the way we are killing ourselves from within? Not allowing the self to manifest is suicide.”\n