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This is a part of an article written for a magazine and is depicted here in several parts. In Ramakrishna the Great Master, by Swami Saradananda, Sri Ramakrishna’s vision about his foremost disciple is depicted vividly. He had this vision even before Narendra came to Daksineswar. In that vision his mind was going up on a luminous path in Samadhi, going beyond the gross world of manifestations into the subtle world of ideas and even beyond the world of deities. Finally it arrived in the realm of indivisible which was difficult to enter even for gods and deities with forms. There it saw seven sages whose bodies were composed only of divine light, engrossed in Samadhi. In virtue and love and renunciation they were far greater than even the deities. Then a part of that abstract undifferentiated divine light became transformed into a divine child who came and embraced one of those sages and tried waking him up from Samadhi with his nectar like words. The sage was full of love and blis

Faith or Sraddha is an intense belief in a cause. As Swami Vivekananda had said, first one needs to develop a Sraddha in one self before one has Sraddha in any other matter. He cites the example of Nachiketa from Kathopanishads. On seeing his father performing the Viswajit sacrifice faith entered into the heart of young Nachiketa. He found that in the name of the sacrifice for giving away everything his father was actually  committing  a major error by giving away the things that he no longer required, like old and decrepit cows who did not yield milk etc. Therefore he went to his father and asked him three times to whom his father would give him (Nachiketa) away? When his father finally, in a fit of irritation, said, to the God of Death Yama himself he would bestow Nachiketa, the latter thought that among many he came first and among many he was in the middle. Sankara and Vivekananda both commented that what Nachiketa meant was that he never considered himself as inferior. This is a

At some point of time in Science there emerged two theories which were supposedly  irreconcilable . One was that of Newton, that light consisted of particles, which was very popular till Christian Huygens proved it wrong. According to the latter theory, light was wave. Thus there were two scientific dogmas which had their own followers and believers. But nobody was in a position to refute or accept one over the other. This was the prevailing condition till Quantum Mechanics came and established the wave particle duality. Thus it took a higher level view to understand the apparent contradiction. This higher level view enabled the scientific world to reconcile the supposedly  irreconcilable . It was established that both both corpuscular theory of light and wave theory of light were true, but they were relative truths. The absolute truth, which is a notch higher than either of these relative planes, can be used to  harmonize  these relative truths and bind them just as one would put se