Coimbatore-based Vethathiri Maharishi merges philosophy with science to unveil the secrets of the universe and teaches a systematized science of living

Unification of science and religion

Science and religion had drifted apart in the western world till Einstein said: ''Religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.'' The gap between the two has been further reduced through the message of Vethathiri Maharishi. While Einstein moved science towards Vedic philosophy through his unified field approach, Maharishi has merged science and philosophy into a single system of jnana—the Brahma Jnana—which portrays how the primordial cause evolved into the present physical universe. The primordial cause—which Maharishi calls pure space, or Allah or Almighty Father or Brahman—is of both consciousness and energy, with an inherent quivering and a self-compressive surrounding force. Thus far, the concept of self-compressive surrounding force is missing in science, resulting in incompleteness of both.