INDIA, July 28, 2023 (MSN.com by Vijender Sharma): In the run up to the launch of Chandrayaan-3, a team of scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) visited the Tirupati Venkatachalapathy temple in Andhra Pradesh. They also took a miniature model of Chandrayaan-3 with them. This was not the first time the scientists from ISRO visited a temple before the launch. As expected a section of influencers and media personalities ridiculed the scientists accusing them of being irrational and abandoning their belief in science in favor of the unknown. Such ridicule has happened before and is likely to happen again in the future, as ISRO scientists will probably visit temples before major missions, and people will continue to ridicule them for doing so.

One can argue that a scientist visiting a temple is an irrational behavior and science alone should be paramount. These reactions, like many other progressive ideas, trace their origins in the Western world. The soft power of the West, especially the US, influences the rest of the world, propagating Western ideas as the only truth in the third world. The same influence contributes to the ridicule of anything religious. Is it strange that an ISRO scientist is comfortable visiting a temple and doesn’t find themselves in conflict with their scientific beliefs? The comfort doesn’t come from being religious, but it comes knowing the fact that their religion and science are not two opposing forces. They know that by accepting one they don’t have to reject the other. They know this because for them both are complementary, both serve each other, both are at ease with each other.

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