Article - SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY
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SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY
CONSCIOUSNESS: THE NEXT FRONTIER OF SCIENCE
Is it possible to live a superhuman life in this human body?
Does such a state as ‘enlightenment’ really exist?
Are some individuals actually wired differently from the rest of us?
Are the expressions of an enlightened consciousness scientifically quantifiable?
Can spiritual states be transmitted from master to disciple?
For centuries, science and spirituality have been battling it out on these issues of perennial importance for humanity. Although spiritual teachers have always maintained that enlightenment is a ‘real’ phenomenon, and a perfectly realizable goal for every human being, the scientific community has naturally been unwilling to accept this without solid proof. It is only in the recent past that science has made a sustained effort to demystify the ancient yogic sciences and accumulate sound medical evidence that explains why the spiritually super-evolved are blessed with ‘powers’ that the rest of us can only dream about.
In the past decade, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been working closely with doctors, scientists and research groups across the world to throw more light on the mystical sciences rooted in the Vedic tradition, and reach the results and benefits of these sciences to people across the world. Although the results of these studies continue to intrigue the world of medical science, we now have growing proof that a range of extraordinary abilities do lie latent in every human being, just outside the sphere of our current experience. Not to be awakened by effort alone, these abilities (known in Sanskrit as siddhis) also ask of us a life of intense moral integrity, deep devotion to Truth and an unquestioning surrender to the flow of Existence - the Divine, the Tao, God or whatever else we may choose to call that most intimate mystery of our lives.
Poised delicately on the border of the scientific and the mystical, these phenomena serve to remind us, as Einstein was to famously observe, that science without religion is lame, while religion without science is blind. It also leaves us with the unsettling realization that we may be much more than we can ever imagine, divine beings merely enjoying a human experience, slumbering spiritual giants only awaiting the touch of awakening.