A scientist only studies things that are beneath him: he studies a plant, an animal, a cell, an arm, a virus; everything is beneath him. Those are the things he can understand. As soon as he starts to study something above him, he freezes. Are there people on other planets? What is consciousness? Is there someone behind the whole universe? All of this eludes him. And if he tries to study things above him, where does he start? How does he study people or things he can’t see? How does he avoid understanding it from a limited human perspective?
It’s like saying that a young cat one day saw an aggressive, enormous animal that devoured everything in its path. It dashed off to warn the older, wiser cats about the danger. The young cat told them that the creature it had seen was as big as a hundred cats and roared ferociously. “Could it have been a dog?” another cat asked. Or perhaps it was a type of cat they didn’t know about? The other cats looked at each other, groomed themselves, and reached no conclusion.
Just then, the oldest cat appeared. He was a brown cat, battle-scarred, and wore a monocle because he had lost his sight in a fight. The young cat described what it had seen, but the older cat didn’t believe him. He said he had never seen anything of the sort, that the young cat was either lying or imagining things. He insisted there were no cats that large in the world and asked the young cat to stop lying and hallucinating, not to come spreading fear, causing chaos, and disrupting the feline status quo. There just weren’t any cats like that in the world, period. The old brown cat unsheathed his claws and scratched the young cat, who ran off to hide. And what had the poor young cat seen? A garbage truck.
Science cannot fully comprehend phenomena that exist on a higher plane. A scientist explaining the universe is akin to a cat observing a garbage truck and speculating about its purpose. The cat has no idea how it’s made, what it’s used for, or what City Hall is, who the mayor might be, or how the mobile phone in the mayor’s pocket operates. For a cat, it’s impossible to understand what lies beyond its comprehension, and for a human, it’s much the same.
The height of arrogance in this entire universe is the belief that humans are the pinnacle of existence and that nothing and no one exists above us.
Another issue with scientists is that they often don’t cultivate humility. It’s not something that’s emphasized or included in their regular discussions. Their careers, training, and daily lives don’t promote or value the development of such qualities. It’s not part of their domain. Their primary focus is on being rigid, cold, and precise. Humility isn’t a requirement in the scientific method.
“Humility, the absence of pride, non-violence, tolerance… all these I declare to be knowledge, and anything else apart from that is ignorance.”
The Bhagavad Gita lists a myriad of factors that lead to knowledge, with humility being the first on the list. If you believe you know it all, how can you learn? If you think something cannot exist merely because you haven’t seen it, how will you progress? There might be thousands of worlds above us that we are unaware of; don’t dismiss them or scorn those who suggest the idea. Acknowledge that your understanding is as limited as that of a cat.
Don’t tell me to “follow the science” if you have the same limitations as a cat.
Scientists, if they don’t see something, claim it doesn’t exist. And if it does exist, they won’t acknowledge it until they have proven it with their limited methods. However, they often lack both the tools to study phenomena beyond their understanding and the humility to open the door of knowledge.
They simply look at you, say, “No, it’s not possible,” and lick their tits like any cat.
