Saturday, February 23, 2013

Science<-->Spirituality<-->Anthropology

Three things can never beeng (intention to mean be and been and being) in Harmony as they are not harmonized as yet I believe. So if we were to draw a venn diagram of these along with another category others for now, what are we left with? What is the domain? I don't really know if anyone has answered this. Also, is anything a pure sub-set of the other, one can keep guessing I realize. But if I asked maybe a Scientist, Spiritual Leader or an Anthropology guy all would say their pursuit is the real thing and mostly would have something to support each of their theories with complete belief. Wait! what would be conviction then. When I do mention that any of their pursuit seems ineffective am I being ignorant. If I don't care about anything and won't be a purist would it affect me?

Another thought that's screaming and making all that noise in my head right now is how much of religions that are a part of the Spirituality set mythology and how much of it is history? As a Hindu, Muslim or Christian how are we interpreting them as an individual? or are we interpreting anything at all? or we just assuming there was god who manifested as a human that we all humans relate to; could feel, could walk with and breathe? and was on a mission to make us realize faith, our being and our purpose?

As far as Hindu mythology/history (assume as suitable to your understanding and realization of the journey of YOUR life) everything is anachronistic with my current understanding, it may exactly not be a religion also, I assume it to be a way of life but with other religions thrown in, they too are but a way of life but does that mean we assume one to be of greater value and others to be a sub-set of lesser value? If Hindu mythology can be put down on a scale Islam and Christianity and other religions may fall on some blocks of time-line and would be of some considerable scale with most of the current understanding and date ranges that we humans have interpreted maybe?

In all of these what I have tried to analyse for my own sake is if things discussed in some scriptures would still boil down to paths of realisation addressing the way to be a human worth being provided the most im-probabilistic chance to appear in these scheme of things as space, stars, planets? Hinduism may provide some more questions to me like if karma, dharma, bhakti, gyaana concepts are really the maarga (paths) that humans are in pursuit of? I am sure other religions may have boiled down to similar pithy definitions I assume that may be the tip of an iceberg I have managed to see at the horizon with respect to one religion?

Also, the most current state my mind is in I assume Hinduism may well have been a non-religion brought out of non existence (nothing) just as space as a concept is to the concept of Universe in the visible and physical manifestation and as historically fact verifiable as religions such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism or others are?