Hasyapriya Prabhu: Is the scientist a noble researcher or someone who is following a lust for recognition? Are we to put our faith in their conclusions and theories when trying to understand what will give us real happiness? Our faith should be placed in the Absolute’s divine agent, the saint, Sri Guru.

Srila Sridhar Maharaj explains, “Darwin has given the theory of evolution— Fossilism. Vedanta has given subjective evolution. In Darwin’s theory of objective evolution, matter evolves consciousness…. That is objective evolution. But an object is a relative term; without the subject, an object cannot stand.”

In this introduction for the new series of articles on science and religion Rohini didi presents the need to explore the field where these two meet.