Kathmandu- With slogan “working together toward a spiritual science of the conscious self”, this year in Kathmandu fifth international conference of Science and Scientist 2017 will organize on August, 18-19.

This Int’l conference will host Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Banglore, India and Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Sabha, Kathmandu, Nepal in collaboration with the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Nepal Academy, Central Department of Biotechnology, Tribhuvan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU).

Speaking at the press conference, the Prof. Dr. Jibaraj Pokhrel, vice chancellor of NAST, this conference will help to link between science and scientists for better understanding of Vedic Science. This conference could help to explain Vedic formulas in a scientific way.

This conference will feature leading scientists from AIMS, IIT, CCMB, Bose institute, TIFR, CIFRI, Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University said Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD., General Secretary of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Banglore, India.

On 5th int’l conference, Scientist around the world will feature hard problems of science viz. nature and origin of life and cosmos, the mind-brain connection, artificial intelligence and cognitive biology in term Vedantic perspective, he added.

The conference is meant to highlight the ontological distinction among mechanical, chemical and biological systems, and 21st century biological sciences that are revealing a level of complexity that was unimaginable at the time of Darwin, he said.

A scientist may have many wonderful experiences, say beauty, love, affectation, charity and so on, but all theories in modern science cannot explain fully how an individual really attains an experience of such things. These things are explained in upcoming conference says Bhakti Niskama Shanta, PhD, Secretary of Sri Chaitanya saraswat Institute, Banglore, India.

Descartes laid the philosophical groundwork for the modern scientific period by separating subjective cognition from objective bodies, thereby also dividing epistemology from ontology reducing knowing to indifferent “observation.” This is the perspective of consciousness and its object, of which material science only imperfectly studies the object. In reality these two are not separated but dialectically related and sublated in the higher comprehending original unity of self-consciousness, he explained.

According to him, Physical scientists fail to study these higher categories of reality and are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of a mere superficial nature that is inadequate to comprehend the core truth. But scientific, rational inquiry will not stop until a comprehensive idea is reached that is coherent with the full range of our knowledge of life. That spectrum of knowledge is not circumscribed merely by chemistry, physics and mathematics, he argued.

Thus Vedānta-sūtra advises, that you will have to continue your search, athāto brahma jijñāsā, until you reach brahma, the underlying spiritual source, janmādy asya yatah, the fountainhead where all inquiry will reach its purpose. Then beyond knowledge Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam will guide us to the ultimate search – raso vai saḥ, the search for our highest fulfillment, sweetness and love, explain by Bhakti Niskama Shanta.

Speaking at the press conference at NAST, Dr. Bhakti Vijnana Muni, President of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Instituete, Banglore, India has said, “Eclipses of the Sun were once predicted using the geocentric epicycles of Ptolemy. They are now described in terms of the heliocentric orbits of Copernicus. Some ancients knew that they could chase away the Moon dog from eating the Sun god whenever they would beat their gongs. Each of these examples has something correct or confirming about them even though they imagine different realities corresponding to them.”

Newton’s conception of the solar system included God as necessary to guide the alchemical vitality that was intrinsic to the order and movement in the universe. The mathematical bones of Newton’s Principia were abstracted by modern physics and converted into a mechanical model of the universe, he added.

The apparently same corresponding observations were used to validate both theories although they referred to very different imagined realities. A map corresponds to an actual terrain and can help one navigate one’s way through the real terrain depending on its accuracy, he explained.

However, the map can never be considered a substitute for the actual terrain since a two dimensional visual map can never represent the lived actuality that is experienced in a real terrain, he argued.

In addition, A reflection of reality in a mirror may accurately depict the objects being reflected, but one who makes a journey “through the looking glass” will not discover the real world but a wonderland of mere exaggerated imaginations like Lewis Carroll’s Alice did. Atomic Theory and Quantum Theory provide imagined wonderlands that possess some observations or correspondence with true reality. To some degree each is logical, self-consistent and complete, although Gödel would object to either being at the same time consistent and complete, Dr. Muni argued.

Generally the struggle of Science is an outcome of the thinking which never considered the possibility that the logic of reality could actually be contradictory by nature. However in Quantum Physics, it is experimentally observed that subatomic particles display both wave and particle behavior. This implies a contradictory feature is contained in the same object explained Dr. Muni.

Similarly in biology, the idea of the integration or unity of consciousness is essential if one wants to comprehend what the true idea of consciousness represents. Science has learned that it cannot ignore the role of the conscious scientist in its exploration of reality even though the realization is still in a very primitive stage as might be expected for any beginner said Dr. Muni.

‘Science and Scientist – 2017’ aims at highlighting the fact that modern scientific research and development seem to be leading to a detente between science and the more spiritual ideas of soul and God as found in all world religions, he added.

The Spiritual concepts can help modern science to explore the reality of a spiritual conscious self as the foundation of life and all the questions of origin of life and evolution should be viewed from a more spiritual concept will explain in 5th Int’l conference on Science and Scientists.