Saturday, September 22, 2018

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind- Albert Einstein



2075-05-06

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind- Albert Einstein

Atheists don't believe in religion and believe only in material. Material is all in all for them but one of the greatest scientists Albert Einstein said- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. What it means that religion is a belief system. If there is no bold guess how scientists display the reality existing. It's true that there is fat in milk but can we separate ghee from the milk with our finger as we can separate chaff from rice. Indeed not but we can if we churn it. In the same way, we know that there is electricity in water. Can we turn on tube light in water? What do we need? Certainly it needs turbine to generate electricity from water. So is the potentiality of every human being. Every human being has the strength, knowledge and existence. Gandhi said- strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from the indomitable will. Every human being has knowledge but he/she cannot prove his/her wisdom. If everyone is able to use the knowledge change it into skill, it will be fruitful. Having knowledge remains useless until it is changed into skill.  Your strength and knowledge can have existence only if you are able to separate chaff from rice, butter from milk and electricity from the water.

Without faith we human beings can do nothing else. Whatever we call science and scientific discovery are the output of the faith of some laborious men who were able to do something else differently. Newton was not the first man to see the falling apple from the tree but everyone used to see the happening every day in the season. But why only Newton raised the question to his inner soul and later he found it that it was due to the gravitation of the earth. Every human's soul is the God whom we can neither see the soul nor tell the lie to it. It is the faith. It is the God that always tells the truth. If anyone says he is an atheist, he is ignoring to his own existence. Materialism is necessary to survive. We may say what religion gives. Can it give us food to eat, clothe to wear and hut to reside? It gives us everything but if we are against religion, it may create conflict among people. If there is no religion, human beings can be no different to the hybrid chickens. A true religious person can develop him as a good man. A good man is remembered everywhere. Everyone remembers him as the good one through the heart but on the other hands the great ones are remembered but not through the soul.


In the name of materialism, there may be conflict in the society. It may cause bloodshed in the end. But religions give knowledge to live in harmony. Martin Luther King said- Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do.  Love and hate are the two sides of human beings. One side leads to the peace and harmony which is the part of spiritualism but on the other side there is hate. It is demonic and leads to the bloodshed. The necessity of so called modern world is to guide the people towards religions. No religion sparks to the people to quarrel, fight and destroy. Every religion suggests people live in harmony, love the younger and respect the senior are the motto of each religion. Demonic nature developed in human beings is the output of ignorance but having positive thinking, sympathy, mercy, etc are the symptoms of spiritualism. Religion should not have any superstition. It must have fact that can be tested. Birth is the messenger of death. When someone gets birth it's sure that his birth is messenger for death and life for doing and shows his worth of living as a human being. More or less science and religion are related to each other. Their existence is there only if there is indomitable faith. It's the faith which can create harmony and it's the faith that leads you to the destruction. It's your faith that can make you strong and it's the faith that makes you feeble. How you take your life.

Both science and religion are related each other. Science can be tested in no time but not the religion. To create harmony in the society, spiritualism plays a vital role. The faith in religion is stronger than the law of nation. If you avoid the regulation of the nation police come and take you to the court to justify you as an abuser of the law. But science has fact and can show other to believe. People cannot avoid the religious beliefs thinking that it may harm to the entire family. In religion if one does a mistake it may effect to all but in science that finds or performs may be the winner and loser himself and do accordingly. Both the science and religion are dependent to each other. Faith is all in all both in science and religion.

Chandra Kanta Pandit
Pashupati Mitra Secondary School
Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal

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