A Way Of Life wIthout Religion - Demystifying Chinmayananda

[RickyJesrani]

Meditation is a skill. If you can master it. Still that mind. Stay independent from the thoughts that pass your mind. Be in that aware state of stillness. Perfect it! Walk that path and then if all that is said is false. You have the right to redicule it.

[RickyJesrani]

"Science is not as arrogant"

Science is infact more arrogant than spiritual seekers.

They are always out there to prove primitive thinking is backwards to modern science. Always out to find proof what the texts are saying is false. More than finding the pleasure in solving the problem, its out there to defy what the text says is absurd.

Look at the video you made. There is so much more you could have contributed to science while wasting time in making this video on a very learned man.

[DemokritosAbdera]

3:37 Cortana :D

[raniisc14]

Thank you Nirmukta! Has Ramdev been exposed as well by you?

[chvartak]

Hinduism firmly asserts that there is NO creation. Creation is impossible. Only apparent modification of one thing into another is possible. True religion is based on pure rational thinking. Basically, you have no idea of what religion is. Whatever your 'model' of religion is, I too disagree with it. Science can only speak in terms of probabilities and uncertainties - thats okay, if thats the best u can do - learn to accept its limitations.Science can at the most answer 'how' , but not 'why' .

[lijeybaley]

@chvartak You are muddling metaphysics and science. But since you mentioned it, Hindu metaphysics is primitive. It is has fantasy land ideas like gunas, karma and Brahman. So there. If you think Hindu metaphysics is the only one that can tell "why", you are the kind of person that the video is talking about. People like you are so arrongant that you think you found answers to the "why". You don't. Nor do I. But I don't pretend that I do.

[ajitakamal]

@chvartak

"Hinduism firmly asserts that there is NO creation"

Hahahahaha. Get the hell out of here with your revisionism, of course there is Hindu creationism, and before modern science that's all there was. It is only since Blavatsky and the later revisionists that the vedantists have jumped on the Hindu evolution bandwagon. This is the deception that Hindus use to muddle the conversation. Cherry pick to justify whatever you want.

"True religion is based on pure rational thinking."

Nonsense.

[ajitakamal]

@chvartak :

"Science can only speak in terms of probabilities and uncertainties - thats okay, if thats the best u can do - learn to accept its limitations."

It is the certainty of ignorance that makes people think they can know absolute objective truth without evidence. Science is not as arrogant. It's not a weakness, but our greatest strength. It's the ability to say "I don't know for sure" that allows us to find answers to problems. Saying "god did it" is a non-explanation. Not a 'why'.

[chvartak]

What gives us the ability to think ? What caused the big-bang, which supposedly created the universe ? What set up the process of evolution ?

Which law created and governs all the laws of nature ? Science does not provide even slightly satisfactory answers to these questions. You just tried to understand what a way of life is, but you didn't at all try to understand what religion is. Swami Chinmayananda always encouraged people to think on their own, and discouraged blind acceptance. Wake-up!

[ajitakamal]

@chvartak

Our brains give us the ability to think. We don't know what caused the big bang, although scientists are working on it. But there is absolutely no evidence that any supernatural entity created it, and Occam's razor dictates that such an entity is rather improbable. The process of evolution is a function of the laws of physics. We do not know that there is a law that "created and governs all the laws of nature", so your question is based on an unstated false premise.

[ajitakamal]

@chvartak

Science is the best tool we have for evaluating objective reality. Religion is a exercise in perpetuating institutionalized superstition. Chinmayananda was good at it, which is why you seem to believe you were actually thinking when listening to his nonsensical ramblings.

[lijeybaley]

@chvartak Religion cannot explain how the human mind works, or how life evolved (instead has some laughable creation stories), how the Solar system formed, our galaxy and all the way till big bang. Science can, but when it gets to the big bang, it humbly accepts that it has no answer. But religion? It is so arrogant that it confidently pretends to have answers. It indulges in fantasy and exhorts its believers to have faith that fantasy is real.

[tarnicles]

great video! great work,Ajita!