The Heart's Reason: Hinduism and Science

Varadaraja V. Raman with Krista Tippett

Physicist Varadaraja V. Raman offers a Hindu view of knowledge, wonder, ritual, and the different questions that science and religion can ask.

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STARTING FRAMEHindu philosophy in conversation with physics

EXPLORESReligions & Wisdom Traditions

ENGAGEMENT EFFORTApproachable

REVIEW DEPTHL2 · Inner Atlas Reviewed

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Good starting place if…

You want a warm introduction to Hindu intellectual life that also loosens an inherited idea that science and religion must be enemies.

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Raman offers one modern Hindu and scientific synthesis. The conversation is not a survey of Hindu traditions or a consensus account of science and religion.