This presentation adheres to various arguments related to "Can Science define Spirituality or are there some missing pieces in Science that Spirituality unveils."

1. The Epistemology of Scientific
Inquiry
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2. Introduction: Science
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⚫Epistemology (from Greek: “the study of knowledge”)
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⚫Science (from Latin scientia: “knowledge”)

3. Introduction: Scientific Method
⚫experiments and empirical observations
⚫basic assumptions:
1) there is an objective reality shared by all
rational observers;
2) this objective reality is governed by
natural laws;
3) these laws can be discovered by means of
systematic observation and experimentation

4. Introduction: Instrumentalism
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Science just as a tool to predict observations?

5. Science & Philosophy
● What is it that distinguishes the two?
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● What are the questions science can ask?
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● Why do we act in a certain way – survival instincts, or a
higher power?

6. Tabula Rasa
- Depression, Obesity, Anorexia, Homosexuality, Happiness,
Evil.
- Nature vs Nurture
- Minnesota Twin Study, Bouchard, 1979
Identical Twins are similar, but not identical
No Effect on whether they are raised together
or apart
Non-twins in same household - drastically
different personalities
- Significance?

7. Is evolution just based on random mutations?
Can we somehow change our genes though conscious actions?
Can we inherit these epigenetic changes?
Epigenetics
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8. Limits of the Scientific method
1. Based on the assumption that sense data/empirical data is true
knowledge
2. Depends on relative viewpoints of people
3. Observer changes the object which is being observed, thus always lagging
behind
4. At best, an approximation “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery
of nature. And that is because, in the last
analysis, we ourselves are a part of the
mystery that we are trying to solve.”

9. S C I E N C E O F S E L F
I N Q U I RY
G L A N C I N G O N
D O Y O U T H I N K T H AT Y O U R E X I S T E N C E C A N B E M E A S U R E D B Y A N A LY T I C A L A N A LY S I S ?

10. S E T H S H I V D AYA L S I N G H
F R O M T H E E A S T
Reference: Sar Bachan Poetry

11. F R O M T H E A G E O F 6 S TA RT E D Q U E S T I O N I N G H I M S E L F A N D S E T O N
A V O YA G E T O S E A R C H F O R T H O S E Q U E S T I O N S
B U T
N O T O U T S I D E B U T S AT I N A S M A L L R O O M A N D M E D I TAT E D F O R M O R E T H A N 3 0 Y E A R S

12. Who are you?
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Where are you?
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Where have you come from?
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Where you want to go?

13. “Soul, who are you?
Where have you come
from?
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You are child of the true
Lord,
and once you were a
resident of the eternal
home“
A S S E RT S T H AT W E A R E
A L L S O U L S .
E T E R N A L H O M E :
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T R U E , I M M U TA B L E
R E G I O N , N A M E L E S S , F O R M L E S S
R E A L I T Y, T H E H I G H E S T O F T H E
F I V E I N N E R R E G I O N S .

14. B U T
W H Y W E S E E I T A S U N T R U E ?

15. “The mind has created worldly
entanglements-
why have you strayed into this net?”
“Kal has put his noose around your
neck.”
K A L :
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L I T E R A L LY, T I M E O R D E AT H ;
T H E R U L E R O F T H E T H R E E
W O R L D S ( P H Y S I C A L , A S T R A L
A N D C A U S A L ) W H O
A D M I N I S T E R S J U S T I C E
S T R I C T LY A C C O R D I N G T O
T H E L AW O F K A R M A ( L AW O F
C A U S E & E F F E C T ) .
“…the mind, tied you down to the
body
and charmed you with the sensual
pleasures…How could you, a
conscious entity, get so embroiled
in a world that is inert and is but an
illusion?”

16. H O W T O G O B A C K T O T H E E T E R N A L H O M E ?

17. I followed many such measures,
yet my mind was not awakened.”
I W E N T O N P I L G R I M A G E S , I FA S T E D ,
I S T U D I E D S C R I P T U R E S A N D B E C A M E L E A R N E D .
I P R A C T I S E D A B S T I N E N C E , R E P E T I T I O N A N D A U S T E R I T I E S O F A L L K I N D S ;
I B E C A M E A S I L E N T S A G E B U T R E M A I N E D I G N O R A N T.
“Let me explain to you, brother,
the way to awaken the slumbering mind.

18. “After an arduous search I found my Master,
who gave me his proven method:
Attend to the company of a Saint and serve him,
sacrifice your body and mind to him.
Ascend to Gagan and hear the true Master’s Word…”
“Rejecting all other ways and means, I have chosen to recommend only this method.”
“ W I T H O U T W O R D T H I S M I N D C A N N E V E R AWA K E N - W H AT E V E R W E M AY D O . ”

19. M A S T E R / G U R U / S A I N T:
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D E S T R O Y E R O F D A R K N E S S ;
O N E W H O B R I N G S L I G H T
I N T O D A R K N E S S . A S P I R I T U A L
PA R E N T W H O G I V E S N E W
B I RT H T O T H E S O U L
T H R O U G H I N I T I AT I O N I N T O
S P I R I T U A L L I F E ; A S P I R I T U A L
T E A C H E R . A G O D - R E A L I S E D
M Y S T I C W H O H A S AT TA I N E D
T H E R E G I O N O F E T E R N I T Y.
M I N D :
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A P O W E R T H AT C O N T R O L S U S
A N D A LWAY S B R I N G
D I S S AT I S FA C T I O N A N D K E E P S
W I S E R T H O U G H T S AT B AY
F R O M U S .
W O R D :
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T H E U N D E R L I N I N G C U R R E N T
O F D I V I N E E N E R G Y T H AT
C R E AT E D A N D S U S TA I N S T H E
U N I V E R S E A L S O C A L L E D
H O LY S P I R I T, M U S I C O F T H E
S P H E R E S , S H A B D , N A M E .

20. M E D I TAT I O N :
L O V E , B E L I E F & H A R D W O R K
T H E PA T H T O S E L F R E A L I S A T I O N

21. 5 D I F F E R E N T R E G I O N S A B O V E T H E E Y E - C E N T E R / T H I R D E Y E
1) Sahansdal Kamal - The thousand-petalled lotus, the
astral region
2) Trikuti - The casual region
3) Daswan Dwar - The tenth door also referred to as
Sunn(Void, emptiness)
4) Bhanwar Gupha - The region where soul first
recognises its identity with God but is still separate
from Him.
5) Sach Khand - The realm of truth, the region of pure
spirit, where the soul merges into its source.

22. S A C H K H A N D : T H E E T E R N A L H O M E
F I N A L D E S T I N A T I O N
This is the knowledge and this is where thoughts, senses
and worldly pleasures disappear and the Soul is reunited
with the God.

23. He clears “ These secrets can never be fully described. Yet I try, though my
words are weak, my description inadequate”.
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So, the path of meditation that He describes, is the path of practice and to
see for yourself that how every question and confusion is dissolved!