jabdakhata

On this auspicious period of Navaratri and Durag Puja, when India worships the divine mother as Shakti, the universal feminine principle that creates, sustains and destroys the universe as nature or Prakriti and which even transcends nature, which permeates the entire universe as the cosmic energy and yet acts as the container of that very energy, it is probably fit to pay our tributes that eternal feminine. Why is the eternal feminine worshiped as Shakti? When did the worship of Shakti start? Why is nature called mother and not father? What is this elusive entity called Shakti? These are some of the questions that have haunted the scholars since time immemorial. However these are the very questions that are conveniently answered by the so called great teachers and mystics. Very few cared to listen to them and those who did had all their problems and doubts resolved. Who is mother? Mother is one who procreates, nourishes and nurtures and takes care or protects. It is true...

Why is then Vedanta, despite its extremely logical construction, an anathema with scientific world? The answer is not far to seek. Just as religions are characterized by dogmas, science also has its own dogma. That dogma prevents scientific world from acknowledging anything remotely connected with spirituality as scientific, even if it is perfectly logical and rational. Science inhabits in the realm of nature. Vedanta, asks us to transcend nature and go beyond. The perceptions are Vedanta are outside sensory perceptions while science deals purely with the world of senses, proofs and tangible evidences. Unless there is any evidence, science considers an explanation as a hypothesis, i.e. acceptable subjected to testing. Now the question is, can Vedantic assertions be ever tested. The answer is a resounding Yes. Vedanta had been and tested and proved even though it is beyond the sense world. The Vedic Rishis, who were actually scientists, did not accept anything without tangible evi...