Hinduism and Science

5c: A Hindu Perspective

Lesson 3 of 3: Student Resource Sheet 2

Seer or scientist?

SEER SCIENTIST

In Hinduism a seer is known as a rishi. A scientist like Einstein may have The Vedas were composed by rishis sudden flashes of inspiration when who were singers of hymns. Rishis sang everything becomes clear. Einstein was to others so that they could learn deep quite secretive about how he came spiritual truths. They were wise men about his theories. He was worried that who received wisdom from the gods his theory about huge amounts of while in deep meditation. They were energy being released from a small saints and ascetics who often lived in amount of matter would be misused. seclusion as hermits. They were He was very unconventional and quirky divinely inspired poets who ‘heard’ or in his dress and his manner. He ‘saw’ special knowledge or revelation shunned categories and was widely and felt they had a duty to tell others regarded as a gifted genius, an inspired about this truth. They were spiritual physicist who thought that religion and discoverers of eternal truths but not in science needed each other for us to any sense ‘inventors’ of that truth. make sense of everything.

Science and Religion in School Project – Unit 5c: A Hindu Perspective Science and Religion in School Project – Unit 5c: A Hindu Perspective