From: Amit Goswami
I started writing this article on Oct 10, 2005. According to the Hindu calendar is a day very auspicious to offer pooja to Goddess Durga, the Divine Mother. It reminded me of the spiritual culture that was India, a spiritual culture in which I grew up. But now, India is undergoing profound changes in their socio-cultural fabric. Materialism is coming to India in a major way, along with highly touted economic growth. Indian spirituality Can survive this affront materialist let alone guide the world in their spiritual future?
My wife, Uma, and for many years have had groups of Westerners to the spiritual journeys in India. And we have noticed changes, major changes in Indian spirituality during this period. When it started, there were many parts of India, where we take our group to get a glimpse of what it means to live in a spiritual culture. The biggest change we've seen over the years is that now may be only two or three main places left in the entire sub-continent in which that vision is available. In most places, temples and ashrams However, spirituality has been marketed, unable to counter the onslaught of tourism and the vices of material wealth and the global economy. From this perspective, the spiritual future of India, like the rest the world does not seem very bright.
At first glance, also seem to be blaming everything on capitalism – the American way, globalization and all that. But presenting this would be a shortsighted conclusion. I send all taking place in India and the West right now is part of a movement evolution of consciousness – integrating East and West.
The integration of East and West
In early last century, we have seen in the conflict in the science and spirituality as a conflict between East and West. Western cultures ignored the spiritual and material culture ignored East – the domain of science. The poet Rudyard Kipling wrote:
East is East and West is West
And the two of you will never meet.
And this was true then. West and a scientific culture, but stubbornly clinging to his Eastern spiritual culture and seemed to never move. Of course, many people still believe this is thus. Ouch! The East is now rapidly giving way to a materialist culture.
From: Amit Goswami
Eastern spirituality fundamentally professes the unity of consciousness and spirituality is a way of life of the Orientals. But in the old western science, consciousness is supposed to be based in the brain, to be individual, by nature, and to be conditioned (via biological and socio-cultural evolution) to operate in the survival of the fittest individual so competitive rate.
But rapid change in course. A brain-based conflict in the consciousness of an insoluble form important quantum physics. So science is undergoing a paradigm shift. In this new paradigm, the Eastern model of the unity of consciousness was found that the right way of thinking about consciousness. Thus, this paradigm is paving the way for integration of science and spirituality of the modern West and the former East.
There is another subtle conflict between East and West approach of life. The Orientals generally consider spirituality as the goal of their lives. It is believed that the individual "soul" (a deeper level of consciousness of identity beyond the ego of a life) is reincarnated many times. Only when the soul learns the secret of his spiritual being of the unit …
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