Abstract
Hindus consider Vedānta as the ultimate knowledge of reality whose emphasis is on human behavior. Sciences also determine reality that is evidence based but is not restricted to human behavior. Vedānta and Sciences should, therefore, have overlapping region and convergence of their worldviews. We got a glimpse of overlapping region by identifying Brahman and Jagat, respectively, with quantum and classical versions of reality. The convergence in their worldviews will, probably, require Vedānta to come out of its mold and to interact with scientific thinking and biological data. There appear some contact points between Sciences and Vedānta that can catalyze their interaction, trigger the evolution of Vedānta, and enlarge the overlapping region. These points belong to relativity theory, quantum field theory and unexplained holistic features of living systems.
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The primary sources of the exposition of Vedānta are Brahma Sutra, Gītā, and Upaniṣad. Gītā is least cumbersome, lucid, and the best exposition. The wisdom traditions in other great civilizations, e.g., Greek, Chinese, etc., have also developed worldviews of the triode. There is a substantial common overlapping region among different worldviews, which implies a consensus about the validity of knowledge contained in the overlapping region among wisdom traditions.
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Hindu wisdom tradition has other concepts of Māyā, and to distinguish them, this concept may be called Nārāyaṇi Māyā, in which Māyā is a dressing of Jagadīśa. A much widely prevalent concept calls Māyā as Śhakti, the power and vitality of Jagadīśa. There is also the concept of Ardha-Nārīśvara, in which Māyā and Jagadīśa are on equal footing being subsumed into each other and become one.
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We are tempted to suggest a reinterpretation of Saccidānanda as an edict proclaiming that the source of bliss (Ānanda) lies in identifying valid basic premise of foundational facts.
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Dark matter is the mysterious substance introduced for accounting nearly 79% of matter in the universe. Its existence is inferred from astrophysical observations of processes such as galaxy formation and dynamics, which appear to be governed by gravitational forces exerted by dark matter. It does not interact with light and is, therefore, called dark matter. The standard model of Particle Physics does not have any particle representing dark matter.
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Bajpai, R.P. (2019). Beyond Vedānta: Speculations of a Quantum Realist. In: Bhatt, S.R. (eds) Quantum Reality and Theory of Śūnya. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1957-0_11
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