Paramvaibhavamnethy Methathswarashtram - 17

Stop the habit of comparing Vedic concepts with modern scientific perspective rather fit modern science into the Vedic frame work :

- Prof. K.M.Rao

Our challenge and task ahead

Our challenge now is to map modern science into the Vedic structures so as to turn it into a ‘Smriti’ that would be compatible with ‘Sruti’. This way, science would benefit from the Vedic vocabulary and frame work; this would facilitate the further development of science. For instance, the Vedic nation of ‘Sakti’ as “Intelligent Energy” cannot be replaced by “separate energy.” “Sakti” is not two separate entities seen as one, but a single unified, intelligence-energy entity. Also, ‘Sakti’ is not constrained by localization. It is non-translatable. Therefore, there is no substitute ‘Sakti’ in modern science. It is a blunder when Vedic scientist translate ‘Sakti’ into reductionist categories like ‘energy’, etc.

Similarly, the nature of ‘time’ is very different in the Vedic framework than the notion of time in modern science. The principle of Karma is a theory of ‘delayed causation’. Unlike physics where causation is only immediate and empirically traceable back to the cause, in Karma an action can have both immediate and delayed consequences. So Karma theory would see physics as a subset, because it deals with immediate empirical effects only.

Stop mopping Vedic Categories to Modern Scientific categories

Vedic scientists should stop the habit of mapping Vedic categories on to similar sounding modern scientific ones, because in doing so they are destroying human kind’s collective knowledge and blocking potential advancements. What Vedic scientists must do, instead, is to map modern science into Vedic categories, and investigate with open minds the feasibility of various such mappings both in empirical testing and theoretical debates.

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