Scientific approach is needed in spiritual quest also otherwise......

Scientific approach is needed otherwise......

The mind is so programmed that it cannot think of doing anything without expectation. The existence of expectation of something itself shows that the person lacks that thing. In a sense existence of expectation is a dis-ease (lacking something or emptiness).

For example a healthy person does not think of going to doctor because there is no symptom of unhealthiness. But what an unhealthy person expects? He expects that the symptoms of the dis-easiness should go away.

Similarly

1) If a person is reading a book with interest it means whatever he is putting in his mind it was not there. It means emptiness for that thing was there in his mind. That emptiness has created a situation of expectation (dis-easiness) and interest is the symptom of that. If the interest is no more to read that book, means expectation (dis-ease) to read is no more there and the person/mind comes to rest as far as that expectation is concerned.

2) A person goes to office, but why? In order to do or complete some work or to get some work done. Engaging oneself in work is a symptom of dis-easiness here. One the work is done/completed the symptom is no more and the person/mind comes to rest as far as that expectation is concerned.

The above can be applied to all of our engagements in which we are continuously engaged and there is no escape also. The symptoms of all our engagements/action (dis-easiness) can be clearly found out by oneself.

From the above one thing is very obvious that before starting the treatment of dis-ease the symptoms have to be clearly found out, otherwise whatever is done is nothing but arrow in the darkness.

Now come to the point. Many of us are engaged in so many spiritual practices to attain something called enlightenment/moksha/salva

tion /union with God /coming to non-dual state/bliss and what not? Our initial desire to engage ourselves (either on our own or due to any circumstances) in such practices shows that we were lacking something. That unknown lacking (void/emptiness) created a desire in ourselves which gave rise to disturbance (dis-easiness) in our psychosomatic system and in order to get rid of that disturbance we engaged ourselves in spiritual practices. But most of us are not aware of the above happenings in the psychosomatic system and how we have been driven to the point where we are. Basically we are engaged in treating our symptoms of dis-easiness so that we come to our natural state (swabhav).

But the tragedy is that before our treatment got started we had not pointed out (others also not pointed out) what are the symptoms which require attention. Unless the symptoms, which have given rise to such a state of ours which require change/modification by way of any method/path/practice, nothing is going to yield. We will just remain in the same state.

Hence a scientific approach is needed in this direction.