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SCIENCE&

SPIRITUALITYPresented by

BhaktivedantaAcademy fr C!"t!reand Ed!catin


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The Advent of Science

Galileo discovers heliocentricity

Newton discovers the laws of motion

Faraday discovers electromagnetism

Planck postulates quantum theory

Einstein postulates relativity !!


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The Advent of Technology

"ames #att invents the steam engine

Edison invents the electric $ul$

#right $rothers invent the airplane !


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The Advent of Technology

Television % entertainment

Aerospace % high speed travel

&omputers % info tech

'nternet % the glo$al village

&ell phones % telecommunication


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BUT.


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A Hard Look at the Modern World

VIOLENCE

(eaths due to wars in the twentieth

century are seven times the deaths due to

wars in the previous nineteen centuries

com$ined

)ates of violent crimes are spiralling

worldwide


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MENTAL HEALTH

*ore People Suffer From +

Stress (epression

,ypertension

Addictions

Than Ever -efore


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SUICIDE

Over I million eole !ommit "#i!ideever$ $ear. Thi" %ire i" more than

the total death" in 'ar" and

homi!ide" !om(ined.World Health Organization (WHO)


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THE )AMIL*'n .SA % E./ one out of every three

marriages ends in divorce within three

years of marriage

"uvenile delinquency is rampant amongchildren from $roken marriages


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THE ECOLO+* ,People living in metropolitan cities will

have their lifespans cut short $y an

average of ten years due to alarming

pollution levels!0

World Health Organization


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THE ECOLO+* ,Environmental super1disasters are no

longer a doomsday prophecy2 they are

an imminent reality!0

World Watch Institute


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WHAT

WE-T

WO-+/


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,We Live In An A&e O%+#ided Mi""ile"0

Mi"ided Men1

2 Martin L#ther 3in&4 5r


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Let #" #nder"tand .Ho' S!ien!e4 'hile

idin& mi""ile"4 ended# mi"idin& men.


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!eS#!!e"" in Te!hnolo&$

doe" not iml$

"#!!e"" in S!ien!e


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!e Scientists $ecameoverconfident due to their

technological successesand assumed that they could

e3plain everything withoutGod!


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!e The common people/$eing impressed $y

technological gadgets/

assumed that everything

scientists say must $etrue!


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!eScience did not prove/ $ut presumed/

the non1e3istence of God % the soul (arwin4s theory of Evolution

The -ig -ang Theory


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S!ien!e Di"!over"

Sirit#alit$ S!ienti%i! roo% %or the e6i"ten!e o% +od7The 'ntelligent (esign *ovement

S!ienti%i! roo% %or the e6i"ten!e o% "o#l7

Studies in &onsciousness


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!e #ithout knowledge of soul/

morality $ecomes meaninglessleading to social chaos

life $ecomes aimless leading toindividual emptiness!


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!e #ithout knowledge of God/

#e $ecome orphans individually/

leading to unlimited an3iety

#e $ecome disunited glo$ally/

leading to unlimited violence!


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Ho' Men Be!ame

Mi"ided ($ S!ien!e#ithout spiritual nourishment/

#e $ecome overwhelmed $ynegative material tendencies

like an3iety/ hatred/ loneliness/

pre5udice/ greed/ $oredom/

envy and anger!


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*odern Education 6

A Spiritual Slaughterhouse

To $e in ignorance is $ad

To $e in ignorance % to declare

ignorance to $e knowledge is worse!

To $e in ignorance/ to declare

ignorance to $e knowledge % to declare

knowledge to $e ignorance is worst!


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S$nthe"i" o% S!ien!e 0 Sirit#alit$

,eli&ion 'itho#t "!ien!e

i" lame. S!ien!e 'itho#treli&ion i" (lind.1

Al(ert Ein"tein


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S$nthe"i" o% S!ien!e 0 Sirit#alit$

Srila Prabhupada:

Indian 'i"dom 8the lame man9 0

Ameri!an re"o#r!e%#lne"" 8the(lind man9

Can to&ether #"her in a ne' erain 'orld hi"tor$


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Spirituality 6 A ,igher

(imensional Science

T,E7)8

S&'EN&E

E9PE)'*ENT

P,':7S7P,8

SP')'T.A:'T8)E:'G'7N


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Spirituality 6 A ,igher

(imensional Science

,)eligion without philosophy is

sentimentalism or fanaticism!Philosophy without religion is 5ust

mental speculation1

Srila Prabhupada


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:edi! Sirit#alit$ 2

Univer"al 0 -on"e!tarian

The CDE o% all Sirit#alit$7

C ; C#lt#re 83arma9

D 2 Devotion 8Bhakti9E 2 Ed#!ation 85nana9


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-haktivedanta Academy

for &ulture and (evotion.nderstand the Philosophy ;


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for &ulture and (evotion

&ome/ let us !

)ekindle wisdom)evive love %

Pioneer a glo$al spiritualreawakening

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