God and Science

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About The Book

This book is about God and Science, exploring the concept of God with particular reference to Sanatana Dharma, also known as Hinduism. Sanatana Dharma is eternal religion, and irrespective of a particular individual's faith, universally it can be followed. Thus, Hinduism stands above all other religions and is a way of life that can be adopted, as it is universal in adaptability. A classic example is that of Dr. Annie Besant, the founder and president of the Theosophical Society of India, who remained a Christian despite adapting to the Hindu way of life. Want to know why we have to go to a temple to pray, why idol worship should be followed? The answers are here. Following Sanatana Dharma alone can give an individual God-realisation or liberation. The scientific basis of Sanatana Dharma is explored in detail in relevant chapters. In short, this book will be a lucid introduction to Sanatana Dharma. Every believer of God will find it worth reading to have a conceptual understanding of God, prayer and the science behind them.

About the Author

T.KR. Sridhara a.k.a. ‘Gurucharan Dasan’ Sridharan holds a first-class. M.Sc. degree Physics from the reputed Madras University and a diploma in Financial Management from the Bombay University. He has held various middle and top management positions in Indian and international banks in a career spanning over 35 years. In the earlier part of his career, he has been a professor of Physics at various colleges in Tamil Nadu.

During his banking career, he also served at the National Institute of Bank Management as an assistant professor, specializing in International Banking and Foreign Exchange.

He participated in the Senior Executive Program conducted by the London Business School, where the senior and top management of global corporations go to hone their management skills. He won the Best Participant Award there.

Upon retirement, he has dedicated himself to spiritual and religious activities by being at member/life member and patron of various religious and spiritual organizations such as Shree Karthikeya Bhakta Samaj, Nagpur, Sri Guru Raghavendraswamy Mutts and ISKCON Right from a young age, he has been a devotee and follower of various realised masters and mystics such as Swamy Sivananda of Rishikesh, Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda, Sri Guru Raghavendraswamy, Jagadguru Sri Shankaracharya (Maha Periyava), Sri Sadasiva Brahmendral and Sri Dayananda Saraswathi of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam. He has been inspired by their books and philosophies on spirituality.

He has participated in various spiritual programs and retreats conducted by the present-day mystics and spiritual masters namely Sri Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Yoga Center, Sri Ravishankarji of Art of Living and Sri Om Swami of Badrikashram, Himachal Pradesh.

He has a fair for teaching and was a training and human resource development manager at a leading Middle-Ear bank. Apart from delivering lectures on Physics and Banking during his career and many in-house publications to his credit, he has devoted his retired life to spirituality. He has delivered lectures on God and science to senior citizens at the Dignity Foundation, Chennai, and other senior citizen's organizations.

Preface

It was about a decade back that the seed for this book was sown which has now blossomed into Part One of God and Science, a very interesting topic, which draws correlations between modern science and what our seers of yore saw as oneness in the form of Brahman pervading the universe, manifesting in each and every bit of creation.

Over the past century, science has been exploring the atom, sub-atomic particles and the universe containing multitudes of galaxies, with instruments of high precision probing them to find the unifying factor called the ultimate reality. Sophisticated mathematical models and physical exploration led to many postulations and discoveries. Mathematical models postulated the elusive and ubiquitous particle called Higgs Boson that should exist, which was necessary to give mass to the universe and its creation in the aftermath of the Big Bang, Big Bang unleased mind-boggling energies leading to the creation of the universe as we see today and this particle postulated by Professor Higgs was called by some physicists "God Particle". This name aroused the curiosity of laymen and scientists alike to know more about this particle detected by CERN, the institute for high energy physics in Switzerland.

**Contents and Sample Pages**