Mulla Nasrudin stopped his wife from jumping off a bridge. "If you jump in," he pleaded, "I will have to jump in after you. It's awfully cold and while we are waiting for the ambulance we will both get pneumonia and die. NOW, PLEASE, BE A GOOD WIFE AND COME
COME AND HANG YOURSELF."
On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
of Posts. Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a
special function in the capital. 'Prem
Ki Madhushala' - a concert by Shubha Mudgal was also
held.
The
Indian President - Yoga of Science and Spirituality
A lot is being written about our famous nuclear scientist,
popularly known as the father of the Indian nuclear bomb and
missile delivery systems, Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam. Soon,
he is going to become the president of the world's largest
democracy. He will be the first Indian scientist to head this
position. Professor Kalam was born in 1931, the same year as
Osho.
That is why I feel like writing about him in this column of
meditation and congratulate him with a unique message of the
greatest Yoga (merger) of science and spirituality. Yoga
simply means meeting and merging. Osho says that spirituality
is the science of the inner. So it would be beneficial for
humanity if science acquires a soul of spirituality. The soul
manifests in love and compassion and all the other qualities
termed as human.
Albert Einstein who became very spiritual in his last days,
once said: "A human being is a part of the whole, called
by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole nature in its beauty."
It is really a blessing when a scientist feels and talks
compassion - more so when a person no less than - Albert
Einstein does it, because it was his special contribution to
nuclear science that was responsible for the total destruction
of two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We would not
like to see the same thing happening on earth again because
that would create an endless chain that will lead to total
destruction. We would like science to become spiritual and
that spirituality gets rid of its superstitions and becomes
scientific. The real spirituality only means one thing:
meditation, going inwards and exploring our consciousness.
Just the way science explores matter, meditation is the
science of the inner; it explores consciousness.
Osho says: I would like you to be enriched by Newton, Edison,
Eddington, Rutherford, Einstein; and I would like you also to
be enriched by Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Mohammed, so that you
can become rich in both the dimensions - the outer and the
inner. Science is good as far as it goes, but it does not go
far enough - and it cannot go. I am not saying that it can go
and it does not go. No, it CANNOT go into the interiority of
your being. The very methodology of science prevents it from
going in. It can go only outwards, it can study only
objectively; it cannot go into the subjectivity itself. That
is the function of religion.
The society needs science, the society needs religion. And if
you ask me what should be the first priority - science should
be the first priority. First the outer, the circumference,
then the inner - because the inner is more subtle, more
delicate. Science can create the space for real religion to
exist on the earth.
On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
of Posts. Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a
special function in the capital. '
A lot is being written about our famous nuclear scientist,
popularly known as the father of the Indian nuclear bomb and
missile delivery systems, Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam. Soon,
he is going to become the president of the world's largest
democracy. He will be the first Indian scientist to head this
position. Professor Kalam was born in 1931, the same year as
Osho.
