Logic, Science and Religion

--Damanjit Singh,
Lecturer, Department of Physics, Baba Kuma Singh Engineering College, Amritsar, India

The birth of human experiencing took place in duality. The duality manifested itself as mind and matter, as self and other and further in minutest details. The space between the dual experiences is filled with doubt, with darkness, with ignorance. To fill this space, to fill this doubt seems the primary concern of human intellect. The intellect fills the gap but again with dual experience. The gap, the doubt sustains. Intellect makes bridges, build structures yet the gaps, the dark spaces continue to exist. Logic takes birth in the dark space between the dual experiences. Every isolated attempt by the intellect to fill the dark space seems a step of logic. Logic tries to give balance to the other. The logic seems to give the experience its perfection in material context. The birth of logic hints towards the quest of human mind to fill the 'doubt' inherently present in its experiencing. The limitation of logic in completing the gap reflects back infinitely between the dual space. The death is seen in infinite mirrors. As the logical web expands, the bird is trapped more and more. More is the travel of intellect in dark space, more is the increase in darkness. During creative experiences, the dark and ignorant faculties of the mind take the consciousness on the path through darkness. Darkness passes through darkness. Although the creativity minimizes the logic, makes it very minute, vibrant, penetrating and even transparent in symbolic dimensions yet the fear of
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death remains. The creative attempt to cease the distance between the self and the other becomes other itself. The `me' becomes 'my'. The spiritual experience is Given. It occurs by itself. It isn't outcome of the logical structures and creative efforts but it does affect them. Once the seed is sown, the shadows of the branches give life to the birds and songs to the earth. Once the divine moment occurs, the mind gains a new intellectual and creative centre. The process of cognition covers new realms, discovers new worlds. The death trapped creative experience sees new light. The stagnation of intellect breaks. The mind gets illumined. The dead concepts breathe in divine air, become alive, become divine. Ouspensky argues that Spirituality manifests itself as a higher fight in intellectuality and emotionality. The intellect gets fused with higher emotions. Higher reason takes birth. The higher reason is entirely unrestricted by logical concepts and by ordinary (Euclidean) modes of thought. The western conflict between science and religion seems very strange at this point. This conflict basically seems the manifestation of the conflict between creator and creation- a separation between two. The God, when is not creation, basically seems to deny the ignorance and hence becomes the centre of ego. Instead of being opposite to each other, the conflict seems basically a quest for interminglement. Science basically seems to be the quest of human mind to experience the process of creation. The God gives the mind a perspective to see the world. The world of science seems the world created by the western mythological God. Hence the God in west seems to have given the western mind an egoistic view of the world. The absence of material balance in religion and the absence of spiritual centers in matter seems to the western crisis.
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The mind seems to lie between two domains. One side of it seems the divine and the other the phenomenal world. The observer and the observed both lie in the mind, both are mind. When the phenomenal aspect of mind is said to be observed then the observer seems the divine side of mind. To realize a phenomenon, the phenomenon must be seen in its entirety. A perspective center is needed. The division between science and religion split the perspective centers in such manner that these got trapped in the other's domain. When phenomenal mind viewed religion with his tools, he gave proportions to the religion. When religious mind observed phenomenal world, he gave suppression, negation to it. Renaissance occurred. Lack of spiritual centers in phenomenal world hindered the science to realize herself in entirety. Lack of participation of darkness in the religious God made the religion cruel over science. Science ached and left religion. The phenomenal mind in search of perspective center created Scientism. The search of spiritual center in her own domain took the science towards mystical realms as the mystical experience seems to belong to the phenomenal world. Guru came. The God came in phenomenon. The conflict with the other ceased. Other become `Sakha'. The doubt, the darkness got illumined. Faith filled the void spaces. The phenomenal, the mystical, the religious worlds found divine centers in their respective realms. The God got Maryada. The basic quest of unification with the other got its perfection. Logic got blessed. Saakhi occurred.
Damanjit Singh is Lecturer in Department of Physics, Baba Kuma Singh Engineering College, Amritsar, India and can be reached at d_damanjitsingh@yahoo.co.in.

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