SCIENCE AND SPIRITULITY

Done by –
P. N Krishnapriya, Krishnapriya R, Pooja Sujan ,
Naseeha Begum , Meghna Baburaj
WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?

 Spirituality is the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as
opposed to material or physical things.
 However it is a broad concept with room for many perspectives.
 It is a universal human experience – something that touches us all.
WHAT IS SCIENCE?

 Science is a systematic and logical approach to discovering how things in

the universe work.
 It is a body of knowledge accumulated through the discoveries about all
the things in the universe.
 Science V/s Spirituality

Science believes Spirituality advocates

Everything is made • Pure Spirit is reality
up of matter • A subject matter of
Demonstrable consciousness
through • Can be
experiments. experienced but
difficult to
demonstrate in
laboratory.
 Science Spirituality

• Physical senses are • By transcending

the limitation of
our only means of senses only true
obtaining knowledge can
knowledge be experienced.
 Science and Spirituality in
Indian Context

• No boundaries of nations, religions,

languages etc.

• Spirituality and religion were one and

the same and integrated with day to
day material life.
• India was not merely a spiritual or religious nation
as projected by western scholars.

• Majority of people were leading material life

guided by righteous wisdom, not merely seeking
Nirvana.
• The religion was based on progressive thoughts.

• words of scriptures were debated and treatise

were written for better explanation of existing
knowledge.
Our Sages - Rishis were scientists
of consciousness

They made their own body the laboratory to conduct

experimentation and they devised the disciplines adopting which
ordinary human being can develop supramental powers.
Some Pioneers of Ancient India

Yagyavalkya – Science of Yagya

Vishwamitra – Science of Gayatri Sadhana
Kanada – Theory of Atom
Patanjali – Ashtanga Yog
Charak – Herbal Science
Sushruta – Surgeon
Aryabhatt – Astrology and Mathematics
• Scientists and Philosophers :
Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Karl
Jung, Elvin Toffler, Fritjof Capra

• Spiritual Personalities of Modern Era :

Sri Aurobindo, Mahrashi Ramana, Swami
Vivekananda, Pandit Shriram Sharma
Acharya
THANK YOU !