Modern Science

Swami Vivekananda has shown that religion, as developed in India in her Vedanta, and modern science are close to each other in spirit and temper and objectives. Both are spiritual disciplines. Even in the cosmology of the physical universe, in the theory of the unity of cause and effect, in the unity and conservation of matter and energy, and in the concept of evolution, cosmic and organic, the two reveal many points of contact. Unlike as in the super-naturalistic theologies of the West, the fundamental position in the cosmology of both Vedanta and modern science is, what Swami Vivekananda calls, ‘the postulate (of the ultimate reality), of the self evolving cause’. Vedanta calls it Brahman, which is a universal spiritual principle. The Taittiriya Upanisad defines Brahman in a majestic utterance, which will be welcomed by every scientific thinker.