Ramakrishna V. Hosur on when Science Meets Spirituality

Science and philosophy have always been woven together. Some of history’s greatest minds—Aristotle, Galileo, Aryabhata and even Einstein—were as much philosophers as they were scientists. This has also been true for ancient Indian civilization, where science and philosophy were explored with extraordinary depth, not as separate pursuits, but as complementary paths to knowledge. These insights were preserved in Sanskrit, a language whose precision allowed complex ideas to be recorded wi...