Scientists announce that the cosmos is composed of atoms. Spiritual seers announce that God is the minutest of atoms and the vastest among the vast. Seawater yields salt crystals. Similarly, the all-per-vading Divinity crystallises as Avatars. The crystal is a build-up of many atoms; the Avatar principle is the build-up of many divine attributes. The two sciences - physical and spiritual can never clash; one compliments the other, for the sciences related to nature have bounds, which they cannot cross. They can study only the created; the Creator is the special field of study for religion. One is the scientist; the other is a saint. The saint probes the root; the scientist peers into the tree above ground. (SSS Vol.15)

Science is a way of looking at the outer world through the mind. The mind’s nature is duality; it divides reality into different names and forms -- it dissects, compares, contrasts, separates categorizes--tries to define and bind reality in terms of words and concepts.

All of this cosmos-the entire material universe, as vast an expanse as it seems-is just a flake of froth, a bubble on the ocean of reality. And the mind, which views it through its senses and tries to grasp and comprehend it-this mind is even bigger than the cosmos; it can eventually encompass and understand it. But even this vast mind is like a little wavelet on the ocean of reality. You are the ocean. You’re not flake of froth and you’re not the wavelet-You are beyond separation. You are everything - You are the ocean.

The mind sees separateness; duality; but there is another way of experiencing reality-as unity. It is through the heart, by the process of love. Love reaches out to merge with the other; two become one. Love sees unity. For the limited little wavelet self to know that it is the ocean, it must merge back into the ocean- through love. ‘The scientist says, ‘What is this’ - this which lies in the outer world and is seen through the senses. The spiritual aspirant says, ‘What is that’ - that which lies beyond the outer world and the senses, beyond duality and the mind as well. ‘That’ is the ocean from which all ‘this’ arises.’

Baba asked ‘Why is that at every body says ‘I’?’ ‘And then pointing to some of us in the room for emphasis, he continued; ‘She says ‘I’; he says ‘I’, 1 say ‘I’, You say ‘I’; we all look different but then is this common sense of ‘I’-ness. What is the meaning behind this? We have to look beyond this constantly changing world of different names and forms in order to see the underlying, unchanging and immutable reality; the reality that always was and always will be, the underlying unity, which gives rise to all this diversity. How can the scientist with his mind try to grasp unity. The mind sees separateness; love sees unity. The only way that the wavelet can know the ocean is to merge back into it - to become one with it. Love is the way; merge with love, through your devotion to God’ Baba paused a moment and then became more animated, ‘My name is Sathya, truth to represent that which is beyond mind. I have come to show you who you are- the reality lies beyond mind. How can a scientist comprehend One? I am in all places at all times everything that ever was or will be. I can transmute the earth into sky and the sky into earth.’ He paused a moment with a playful twinkle in his eyes. ‘But I don’t do it often because it causes inconvenience to some people’. (S&M, p. 4-5)

How can science, which is bound to a physical and materialist outlook, investigate transcendental phenomena beyond its scope, reach of comprehension? This is a fallacy on the face of it. One belongs to the material and the other to a spiritual plane. Science must confine its inquiry only to things belonging to the human senses, while spiritualism transcends the senses. If you want to understand the nature of spiritual power you can do so only through the path of spirituality and not science. What science has been able to unravel is merely a fraction of the cosmic phenomena; it tends, however, to exaggerate its contribution.

Quite right, science is developing all the time so that the metaphysics of yesterday becomes physics of today but it is still blind to the vast and invisible world of consciousness. The very fact that science is changing all the time proves its incapacity to investigate the ultimate and absolute truth. Some time ago, scientists maintained’ that atom cannot be broken, but recently they succeeded in breaking it. They are still ignorant about the realities of the pranic force behind the atom, which is the least of its components.

Science is a mere glow-worm in the light and splendour of the sun. It is true that it can research, discover and gather a lot of information about nature and its material functions and use it for the development of worldly things. Spiritualism, on the other hand, reigns over the cosmic field where science has no place. That is why some discoveries of science are useful while others can be disastrous’. (S&M, p, 252)

All our scriptures assert that God is present in everyone. According to Vivekananda, ‘God is present in all’. The only thing that is manifest and common to the whole world and, in fact, governs and directs the entire universe, is divinity. Nothing else really exists except divinity. Mine is no escapism but the fundamental and eternal truth. I say so not because I am unsure of my own divinity. It is my confidence in its total authenticity that makes me affirm this fact. It is the scientists who are so unsure of themselves that they indulge in escapist theories. For example, they say that the moon is lifeless. Simultaneously, they maintain that all matter consists of moving atoms. Now isn’t the moon also a conglomerate of the same moving atoms? Then how can it be lifeless? There is no matter, which does not consist of atoms, electrons, neutrons and protons, which are all constantly moving. This energy; too, is God.

So also, there is no human being in whom there is no divinity. To say that there is no God in man is like saying that there is no atom in the moon or any large lump of matter. The omnipresence of God has been described in our ancient texts as ‘anoraniyam mahatoo mahiyam’ (God is a small particle in the smallest of particles and a large mass in the largest of the masses). In this context, how can one say that God is not in man? (S&M, p. 254)

Science & Spirituality are only like the two legs that enable man to progress towards his goal.

Science, which like the letter ‘C’, shows a wide gap and will be made wholesome by Spirituality like the letter ‘O’ which is Purna or full and whole.

The scientist cannot stop the rise of greed and hate in the human heart; he can only forge the weapons they require and improve their lethal efficiency. Man lives in daily dread of extinction as a result of the discoveries of science; for, any moment, the storm of hate may rain bombs on their homes. Science has deprived man of self-confidence. He is not sure of even himself. He is afraid of himself for, at the slightest provocation, he is transformed into a wild and vicious beast. (EL, p.87)

Science is below the mind; spirituality is beyond the mind. (Uniq, p. 156)