One must only get rid of an old system of thought if they have a new one to replace it. This is the classical argument against the revolution concept in marxism. Although it is true that capitalism is a highly unfair, exploitative and dehumanizing system which has its own seeds of destruction inherent within it, it is still the best system we have today and until we do not have a replacement we cannot be rid of it. Similarly, we need a replacement of an old system of civilisation with a new system of civilisation that ensues progress. But there is absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel when the wheel already exists. Such a system already exists and it is the dharmic system of India.
It is easy to see for any honest historian and rationalist that the dharmic system of India has produced remarkable levels of prosperity. India had an approx 33% share of the GDP of the world from the year 1AD to 10AD, the highest that any country has had in history. It had huge industy(in ancient times Indian goods were exported all over the world and enjoyed legendary status for their high quality) in shipbuilding, textiles, spices, steel, diamonds and gems etc. It had a highly vibrant academic and litrary culture, which had universities, schools, colleges, hospitals. The contributions this culture made to shaping science, technology, art, philosophy, mathematics is immense.
It thus stands to reason that the dharmic religion is already consistent with science and technology. It is not at odds with it as the Abrahamic religion is. It is evidently a system that leads to high civilisation and progress. Now the next question that we need to ask is simply how high is that civilisation and how progressed. Evidently, if our civilisation today is ahead of the dharmic civilisation of the past, then we have nothing to learn from it.
But on the contrary we find that everything that comes down to us from the dharmic civilisation is of a superior standard:
The medical and healthcare systems are superior. Yoga and Ayurveda are highly sought after in the world for the great benefits they produce, which have been scientifically verified through several clinical studies. The methods used in Yoga are being adopted in our most cutting edge phenomenological sciences and leading scientists themselves are praising the systems. Ayurveda has also undergone many clinical trials in its effiacy in fighting diseases that modern medicine stuggles with, such as arthiritis, diabetes, heart diease and evidence shows Ayurveda has a higher effiacy. It has also been used in fatal diseases like cancer and aids.
The scientific methodology and scientific theories are superior. The pramana scientific method of perception, inference and phenomenological research where perception is used only to collect initial data and thereafter only pure scientific reasoning is far superior to the hypothetica-deductive method of modern science. While, modern scientific theories are constantly getting falsified, Hindu scientific theories are constantly getting verified. Whenever modern science discovers something new, it turns out it was already known to the Hindus(atoms, quantum fields, observer effects, mind and matter interactions, AI, other dimensions, OBES, past life memories)
To date the best texts written on psychology is Patanjali’s Yogasutras.
To date the best text written on physics is Kapila’s Samkhya sutras
To date best text written on linguistics is Panini’s Asthayadhi
To date the best text written on prosody is Pingalas Chandashastra
To date the best text written on medicine is the Charaka Samhita
These are the views of experts in these respective fields who are familiar with their works. Thus it stands to reason these are not the works of a primitive people, but the works of a highly advanced scientific people. The dharmic religion is the religion of a highly advanced scientific people, and therefore it should be religion of the scientific world of today.
