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Varadaraja V. Raman is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has lectured and written Indian heritage and culture and authored numerous books, book reviews and articles on science and religion. He is considered expert in the Hindu religion, espectially as how it relates to modern science. In 2005 he was elected Senior Fellow of the Metanexus Institute. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao Award which recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the literature of the South Asian Diaspora. On May 18, 2007, Navya Shastra, a reformist Hindu organization, conferred on him the title Acharya Vidyasagar in recognition of his contributions to Hinduism.

He has guided our endeavors as an advisor and friend. His sagacious interpretations of Hindu culture are profoundly attuned to a timeless spiritual sensibility. At the same time, he unapologetically rejects outmoded practices that have no place in the modern world In ancient India , a man like Professor Raman was called an acharya, a teacher of profound truths, a guide on the spiritual path, and someone an entire community looked up to. We at Navya Shastra are honored to proclaim Professor Raman – Acharya Vidyasagar- an embodiment of the ocean of wisdom.

✵ 28. May 1932
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Famous Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

“The person of faith, in ritual or worship, while reciting a prayer, singing a psalm, and invoking a mantra, feels deep within a communion that, like the philosopher’s stone of alchemy, transforms the lead and copper of animal existence into the silver and gold of divine delight.”

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page 176
Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

“What debaters in ivory towers often fail to realize is that when it comes to achieving well-defined goals, both theism and atheism can work.”

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“condemning religions as a whole would be like wanting to destroy a garden because weeds have disfigured it.”

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“The religious approach to spirituality is like delighting in a gourmet meal; the scientific approach is like studying recipes or chemically analyzing the ingredients of the menu.”

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“Ultimately, we all become photographs.”

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REFLECTIONS ON MY MORTALITY
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“While we have footprints on the sands of time, there is no trace of things yet to come.”

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TIME: CEASELESS PROGRESSION:
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Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes about science

“science and religion are intrinsically interconnected both being expressions of the human spirit.”

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“It has been said that science is proof without certainty, where as religion is certainty without proof.”

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“the technical work of scientists is blind to nationalities, they overlap and mingle like sounds from different instruments in an orchestra to create and constitute the grand symphony that science is.”

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“The aesthetic dimensions of science, like that of great classical music, are evident to the aficionado.”

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“Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.”

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SOME THOUGHTS ON MULTICULTURALISM
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Varadaraja V. Raman Quotes

“Mysteries, to most scientists, are meta-stable states of non-understanding, often like darkness before dawn. Like the morning dew, they evaporate away by the light of new knowledge, causing an euphoric eureka.”

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Understanding , Knowledge , Light

“The spiritual quest is the expression of the deepest longing to connect with the Whole.”

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“When one is involved in the discovery and discernment of the marvelous law and symmetries that shape the phenomenal world, one cannot but be struck by the silent and unfathomable intelligence that seems to pervade the Cosmos.”

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World , Law , Intelligence

“Religions are like lofty peaks rising high above the surrounding plains of our physical being, merging, as it were, into the distant domain of heaven itself, beckoning the human spirit with grandeur.”

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Religion , Distant

“If a and b yield C, but C is not equal to a+b, then we have emergence.”

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“all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.”

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Beauty , Light , Universe

“The fact is, when we are born, we are neither theists nor atheists, but ignoro-theists.”

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“Of all the wondrous elements in our vast and complex universe, there is perhaps nothing more intriguing, than consciousness.”

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Universe

“We are creatures, not only of the mind, but of feelings and emotions as well. Indeed, feelings and emotions are more fundamental to our being than pure logic and reasoning.”

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Feeling

“When the poet said that for him poetry was not a purpose, but a passion, he was also expressing the feelings of the true scientist to his own field.”

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THOUGHTS ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE’’
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Feeling , Passion

“If we do not wonder about origins and ends at least once during life’s journey, we are but biochemical blobs that devour matter and energy for a time-span, sport and make noise, and then go into eternal extinction.”

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Life , Sport , Time

“Bookish academics need to remember that when it comes to analyzing works regarded as sacred by vast numbers of people, sound scholarship is like the firmness of bones, while appreciation and sensitivity are like flesh and blood. Without the latter, the former is merely an ugly skeleton: morbid and monstrous, lifeless and lamentable. With the latter, scholarship becomes robust and living.”

Varadaraja V. Raman

Quoted in Pratap Kumar, "A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India," in New Approaches to the Study of Religion, Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne, editors, 2004, p. 132.

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