Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

A genuine scientist has something of the feeling of awe and reverence towards the ultimate reality which transcends the observed facts of the world and the religious mystic is not altogether free of the critical attitude of the scientist. [...] It is the renewed awareness of the limitations of the analytical mind and the recognition of that which is the Source of mind. [...] The 'mystical' East which was for the West but an image of its own aspiration and longing for escape reappears as the eternal present; the physical meeting of the East and the West as the changeless and the changeful; the hidden treasure discovered in the debris of disintegration. [...] This is the spiritual message of the Eas and the West of today the new world syn thesis; not the inseparable barrier of prejudice and mental preconception; not the finality o estranged dogmas; but the nostalgia of the soul the quest of Reality the search for the hidden treasure. [...] Whereas the quest of bioldgy is the solution of the riddle of life the quest of physics and chemistry is non-living matter the1952 EVOLUTION AND GOD 371 quest of astronomy is the heavenly bodies the quest of philosophy is the why and wherefore of the whole universe.