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Discourse 30
The Greatest Synthesis Ever
The Greatest Synthesis Ever
17 January 1988 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS YOUR VISION OF A WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FOR CREATIVITY?
Amrito, the world has come so close to a point of crisis that the so-
called thinkers of the world simply avoid talking about the coming
suicide. It is not far away; by the end of the century, if we do not do
anything... This has been the habit of all good people of the world –
not to do anything, while the criminals and the evil continue to do all
their crimes. This habit has to be broken at least this once.
You have raised a question which has tremendous importance and I
would like to go deeper into detail about it.
Science is a new phenomenon compared to religion. Religion has
dominated the world in some form or other as far back as we can
see. Science has a history of only three hundred years. This
background has to be understood; only then can the problem be
seen in the right perspective.
These three hundred years, science has had to fight inch by inch
against the deeply rooted religions, which were vast empires of
power, vested interest. On the smallest things science was in
difficulty: if it went against religions, then science was so young that
it was not possible for it to fight.
I am reminded of Galileo, himself a Christian, not an atheist. But
because he discovered that it is not the sun that goes around the
earth, but just the contrary, it is the earth that goes around the
sun....
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS YOUR VISION OF A WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FOR CREATIVITY?
Amrito, the world has come so close to a point of crisis that the so-
called thinkers of the world simply avoid talking about the coming
suicide. It is not far away; by the end of the century, if we do not do
anything... This has been the habit of all good people of the world –
not to do anything, while the criminals and the evil continue to do all
their crimes. This habit has to be broken at least this once.
You have raised a question which has tremendous importance and I
would like to go deeper into detail about it.
Science is a new phenomenon compared to religion. Religion has
dominated the world in some form or other as far back as we can
see. Science has a history of only three hundred years. This
background has to be understood; only then can the problem be
seen in the right perspective.
These three hundred years, science has had to fight inch by inch
against the deeply rooted religions, which were vast empires of
power, vested interest. On the smallest things science was in
difficulty: if it went against religions, then science was so young that
it was not possible for it to fight.
I am reminded of Galileo, himself a Christian, not an atheist. But
because he discovered that it is not the sun that goes around the
earth, but just the contrary, it is the earth that goes around the
sun....
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