- Indian youth, even the most educated, dismiss their own culture as unscientific, outdated, and inferior.
- Bright minds aspire to leave India not to serve the country, but to become employees—often undervalued ones—of foreign corporations and institutions.
- Indigenous sciences like Āyurveda, Jyotiṣa, Sāṅkhya, Vaiśeṣika, and even Vedānta are either ignored or mocked in our own schools and universities.
- Indian languages—the carriers of these knowledge systems—are sidelined, while fluency in English is equated with intelligence and success.
- This is not progress. This is mental slavery in the name of modernity.
- The "hard problem" of consciousness remains unsolved—how subjective experience arises from objective matter.
- The origin of life (abiogenesis) has not been demonstrated, despite decades of experimentation.
- Evolutionary theory cannot explain how complex organs like the eye or consciousness itself emerge by chance.
- Indian philosophical systems, especially Gauḍīya Vedānta, have always taught that life comes from life, that consciousness is primary, and that the universe is a manifestation of intelligence and love, not entropy and chance.
- The origin of consciousness.
- The teleological harmony in biological development (e.g., morphogenesis).
- The subjective experience of the “I.”
❝more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilised races throughout the world.[Charles Darwin to William Graham, July 3, 1881, Darwin Correspondence Project, Letter no. 13230, University of Cambridge, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13230.xml. Letter quoted in Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters (London: Murray, 1902), 64.]
❝ At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.[Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2 vols. [1871] (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 1:201.]
❝‘Social Darwinism’ is often taken to be something extraneous, an ugly concretion added to the pure Darwinian corpus after the event, tarnishing Darwin’s image. But his notebooks make plain that competition, free trade, imperialism, racial extermination, and sexual inequality were written into the equation from the start — ‘Darwinism’ was always intended to explain human society.[Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp. xxi, ISBN 0-7181-3430-3]
❝By biologizing colonial eradication, Darwin was making ‘racial’ extinction an inevitable evolutionary consequence…. Races and species perishing was the norm of prehistory. The uncivilized races were following suite [sic], except that Darwin’s mechanism here was modern-day massacre…. Imperialist expansion was becoming the very motor of human progress. It is interesting, given the family’s emotional anti-slavery views, that Darwin’s biologizing of genocide should appear to be so dispassionate…. Natural selection was now predicated on the weaker being extinguished. Individuals, races even, had to perish for progress to occur. Thus it was, that ‘Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal’. Europeans were the agents of Evolution. Prichard’s warning about aboriginal slaughter was intended to alert the nation, but Darwin was already naturalizing the cause and rationalizing the outcome.[Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), 149–151.]
- Why does this explosion give rise to cosmic order, rather than chaos? What accounts for the precise fine-tuning of universal constants that allow life to exist?
- Where does the information embedded in DNA, galaxies, and governing laws originate from? Randomness cannot generate code.
- Who or what observes the universe into existence? Without consciousness, what does it mean to say the universe exists at all?
- Yet, Indian textbooks propagate this fantasy without disclaimer, ignoring the universal biological principle: omne vivum ex vivo—life comes from life.
- Vedānta, far from being anti-scientific, upholds this empirical truth and enriches it. Vedānta offers a deeper paradigm: Biohylogenesis—matter comes from life. Conscious beings (jīvas) are not born of matter; rather, it is conscious life that gives rise to and governs material nature. Śrī Kṛṣṇa declares in the Bhagavad-gītā 9.10: Under My supervision, material nature produces the moving and non-moving beings.
- The jīva and Paramātmā are the true agents behind biological manifestation—not molecules and chance.
- To chase validation from Western journals.
- To reject Indian epistemology unless "approved" by foreign academia.
- To see their own āchāryas, śāstra, and bhakti as primitive, emotional, and unscientific.
- Is it any wonder that India, a land of once-seers and r̥ṣis, now produces more coders, clerks, and academic replicators than visionaries?
- Life is not engineered—it unfolds from within.
- jīva-Soul, the source of consciousness is not emergent—it is eternal (Bhagavad-gītā 2.20).
- The universe is not a machine—it is a divine expression (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.1).
- Revise school and university curricula to include authentic Indian epistemology as valid ways of knowing, not as mythology.
- Fund Vedānta-based research in consciousness, life sciences, and cosmology.
- Promote dialogue between science and dharma not on Western terms, but through Indian philosophical categories like tattva-traya (Bhagavān, ātmā, and prakṛti).
- Restore pride in our śāstras and encourage the educated to become not just job seekers but bhaktas, sādhus, and sevakas.
- Life is not a product of purposeless matter—it is a person. Consciousness is not a glitch—it is the guide. The universe is not accidental—it is orchestrated.
- India’s future depends on the revival of ancient India's civilizational wisdom. That future begins when every Indian can proudly say: “My tradition is not behind modern reductionist science—it transcends it.”
- Let us not be the last to believe what our ancestors knew first.