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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 4, 15th January 2023

Unfortunately, all these things are so much life’s aim and man’s real purpose.
misunderstood in modern times where
a divide has been created between man’s Of course, there are historical and other reasons
deepest seekings and highest strivings and for this dissonance but discussing them may
the practical knowledge that helps us deal be more relevant to the history of Science in
with everyday situations and circumstances. the context of human evolution taking place
Or does it? This is the question we must through different ages or epochs of Time. Each
sincerely ask. age stresses upon one main aspect of human
nature, subduing all other aspects to this part
that plays a lead role in shaping our thoughts
and ideas and ethics and sociology, our self-
regard and world-view. It is like the operating
system of the mind, the lens given to us through
which we look at our self and the world.

In the age that we are just leaving behind
us, the dominating principle has been the
materialistic analytical mind. It helped
Modern psychology and ancient insights mankind probe into matter in its intricate
details of functioning. Its advantage was the
Modern psychology with all its rumbling discovery of the material substrate, the brain
and rummaging is still too much driven by and the neuronal network, the molecules that
the study of the animal in man rather the swim in the sea of mind carrying information
gods chained within, labouring to be released. in coded form. It was but natural that we
It uses the word dynamic to describe the learnt the science of manipulating matter for
inner events yet misses the true dynamic of psychological results. But its disadvantage
evolution that is yet going on in the mind- was to divorce man’s deepest aspects that are
space. But most of all it misses the real not measurable and cannot be manipulated
man, which is the soul within because the by material means alone.
presence of the soul cannot yet be determined
statistically even though it can be experienced Of course, things are neither purely material
individually. nor entirely spiritual. We are coming to an
Age where material monism has to learn to
The key to understanding man in his totality integrate with the workings of the spiritual
is with the soul which is one of the key forces – understand, accept and accommodate
discoveries of Indian Psychology. The other it in the larger scheme of things. At the same
key is to understand the Wisdom operating time, we have to keep the gains of the Age of
from within, hidden behind the appearances Extreme Materialism and use its knowledge
of life, the Knowledge and Power that works meaningfully and in a judicious manner,
and labours in creation towards evolution of wisely if one may say so. We are gone past the
consciousness and development of forms. By Age of either-or, when the world was sharply
ignoring these two crucial elements it misses divided between two camps, — spiritual and

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