Does science make it impossible for one to be spiritual?
That is the misleading claim not of science, but of scientism, the belief system that science has a monopoly on knowledge.
Ironically, scientism makes it impossible for us to be scientific. Let’s see how.
The success of science, indeed its survival, is based on a presumption and a precondition. The presumption is that nature has a rational order discernable through human investigation. And the precondition is that we have minds capable of such rational contemplation.
But why does nature have a rational order? Why are our minds capable of rational thinking? When faced with such perplexing questions, scientism usually hides behind the back of its twin: reductionism.
What is reductionism?
The notion that everything can be explained by reducing it to its smaller constituents and their interactions.
Reductionism posits that everything has evolved from a primeval soup, which in turn has emerged from a big bang. And that bang came from a singularity that somehow singularly existed and suddenly exploded.
“With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.” - Charles Darwin
Given the immense complexity of the mind and the world, the probability of their having come about thus is infinitesimally, even impossibly, low.
But even granting that this somehow squeezed through that ultra-microscopic portal of probability, a bigger roadblock awaits. Darwin confessed it thus in a letter to William Graham (3 July 1881): “With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.”
If our mind is unreliable – and reductionism gives us no reason to believe otherwise, then whatever beliefs our mind comes up with are also unreliable. As reductionism and scientism are also beliefs coming from an unreliable mind, they too have the warning tag: unreliable. Thus, reductionism reduces, even ruins, its own reliability.
Worse still, reductionism destroys rationality too. Physicist John Polkinghorne explains in his book One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology the logical consequences of reducing the mind to the signals in the brain: “Thought is replaced by electro-chemical neural events. Two such events cannot confront each other in rational discourse. They are neither right nor wrong. They simply happen… The very assertions of the reductionist himself are nothing but blips in the neural network of his brain. The world of rational discourse dissolves into the absurd chatter of firing synapses. Quite frankly, that cannot be right and none of us believes it to be so.”
Thus, scientism sentences our rationality – and consequently our science – to the scrapheap of irrationality. Better to be rational and retain the privilege of availing valuable sources of knowledge such as science and spirituality.
After the two Successful Ratha Yatra in Capital of Nepal, Kathmandu and Bhaktpaur, there was another one more Ratha yatra in in Valley of Nepal at PATAN on 12th July 2014, Saturday. This is the 4th Ratha Yatra in This Year in Nepal. Many more devotees from all part of Nepal attened this Ratha Yatra. Dancing, Kirtan, Chanting Holy name, Distributing Books, Pulling Chariot, Arati, Giving Darshan to everyone in a Sunny Day was even good. Hoping to attend other Ratha yatras in other Part of the Country in upcoming Days.
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Almviks Gard, ISKCON village in Sweden: Exemplary community of people living for God! 
After we left from Gothenburg, we spent two wonderful days at a nearly deserted lake near Trättelanda. There we were able to celebrate wonderful Ekadasi, chanting and reading, swimming or just even let your mind wander. Then it went in a rush of 108 Km / h towards Oslo on, where we were greeted with ice in the temple. Then we went into the city - Harinam. On Thursday, we celebrated Ratha Yatra and counter to the emphasis weather forecast it was not raining, but we celebrated extensively in the sunshine. 
Bringing a Splash of Spiritual Culture to Toronto!
The past four decades have witnessed the Festival of India blossom into one of Toronto’s most dazzling, head-turning summer events. And in 2012 the chariots and festivities rolled into the city for the 40th time. The event begun with a euphoric parade down world-famous Yonge Street (beginning at Bloor and continuing south to Queens Quay). The celebrations then shifted to Centre Island for two days of festivities that attracted close to 40,000 people. 
Yesterday we did all the pertinent tests at the Clinic to see Jayapataka Swami’s health condition in general.
Test results were better than what we thought. Jayapataka Swami has a mild chest infection, a viral bronchitis, which is now being treated with antibiotics pills. So today his condition is much better. 
The holy name of Lord Krishna is a reservoir of all transcendental happiness. It destroys the sins of the Kali-yuga. It is the most purifying of all purifying things. It is the saintly person's food as he traverses the path to the spiritual world. It is the pleasure garden where the voices of the greatest saints, philosophers, and poets play. It is the life of the righteous and the seed of the tree of religion. May that holy name of Lord Krishna bring transcendental auspiciousness to you all.—author unknown (Padyavali 3) 
It seems I went a little bit viral a couple of days ago with the “Ask a Monk” picture.
It has to be said, that the original idea was not mine, but my dear friend and Godbrother Sadbhuja Prabhu's . Thanks must be given also to my dear friend and Godsister Sanatani Devi-dasi who suggested I did it and took the pictures.
I have never gotten as intimate with people on the street as I did with this method. As I see it, this is mainly due to three factors, namely 1: They come to me, I don't approach them, so naturally they are inclined to listen to what I have to say. 2: It says “any topic” so that means we are talking about something they identify with from the get go, and 3: I am sitting down, they are walking by, so psychologically I look inferior to them. This means I am not confrontational in any way. 
Lord Krishna said to Arjuna, 'O Arjuna! Listen attentively. When the living entity chants My name, whether out of devotion or indifference, I never forget this act. It remains always close to My heart. There is no vow like chanting the holy name, no knowledge superior to It, no meditation which comes anywhere near it, and it gives the highest result. No penance is equal to it, and nothing is as potent or powerful as the holy name. 
Anyone who chants Lord Krishna's holy name is to be worshipped like a guru without considering that such a person is a woman, a sudra, a pukkasa, a yavana or of even lower birth.