The talk based on this ppt can be heard here: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2018/04/science-spirituality-search-meaning/ The speaker, Chaitanya Charan, is a monk, mentor and spiritual author. He has written 20 books and writes the world's only daily blog on the timeless spiritual class, Bhagavad-gita, at gitadaily.com

1. Science,
Spirituality &
The Search for Meaning

2. What’s missing?
Amidst extraordinary
progress, why
extraordinary distress?
Eg 1 million annual suicides

3. We need meaning
“Life is not primarily a quest for
pleasure ... or a quest for power, …,
but a quest for meaning. The
greatest task for any person is to
find meaning in his or her life.”
- Viktor Frankl

4. Purpose brings power
We can face problems.
What we can’t bear is pointless
problems
“What is the point of it all?”

5. Can science provide meaning?
“The more comprehensible the
universe becomes, the more it
also seems pointless.”
 - Physicist Steven Weinberg

6. What science doesn't know
1. What is the universe made
of?
2. What is the biological basis of
consciousness?
Science, 125th anniversary issue

7. Why can science know what it knows
When lost,
1. find paper
2. written in language that you
understand
3. Having the information you need

8. Why can science know what it knows
1. Nature follows laws
2. Those laws can be expressed in
mathematical language
3. We have minds that conceive
mathematics

9. Why can science know what it knows
“The miracle of the appropriateness
of the language of mathematics for
the formulation of the laws of
physics is a wonderful gift which we
neither understand nor deserve.”
- Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner

10. Science’s scope empowers and limits
Methodological
naturalism
Eg. Fishing net

11. Science’s scope empowers and limits
Medical Science
Eg Painometer,
Loveometer

12. The self – a holistic understanding
The body: hardware
The mind: software
The soul: user

13. A thought-exercise
Close your eyes
Look at what appears on the
inner screen
Look for the seer of the inner
screen

14. Virus of the mind
The idea that the
physical alone is real
and will provide real
happiness

15. Expanding the boundaries of knowledge
How quantum physics
developed
Be open to knowledge
wherever it is found

16. Spiritual Evolution
We are sparks of
consciousness seeking
enduring meaning
Life – 100 mile marathon,
not 100 m sprint

17. Science-spirituality harmony
Science can make
things better;
spirituality can
make people better