Science asks the question, questions, "What? and How?" and seeks to get the answers from the objective world of Name and Form, the world one can see, hear, taste, touch and smell, the world one can categorise through reason. But the science of the spirit asks the question, "Why? For what purpose?" It discovers that maya is the answer for the Why! Sheer delight, at confusing reason, through the illusion of manifoldness! Ice and steam are but water, though they appear so different in every way; diamond is but carbon; jewels are but gold; pots are but clay. Go into the truth and you see the One behind the manifold! Brahman alone is the One; all else is the superimposition of name and form upon its Sat-Cit-ananda (Being-Awareness-Bliss) essence. (SSS Vol. 10, p. 87)

‘The intellect must investigate, as far as it can, the fundamental problem, why this birth, whither this life, whence this adventure, what the effect of human actions is on this life and on future lives, etc. Consciousness must delve deep into the Divinity that underlies it.’ (SSS Vol.3, p. 70)