When Abrahamic Religions are threatened by Science – Hinduism Embraces New Discoveries – understanding and excerpts from editorial of Prabuddha Bharata published in November 2011. In almost all civilizations people looked at the world outside, wondered, pondered, and produced their conception of God and gods and goddesses. This approach gave them beautiful ideas of religion with an accompanying mythology and rituals. But the conception of soul was woefully absent, or if present, it was very crude. The mysterious mind was invariably taken as spirit or soul. In India, from the earliest times, the social structure and Vedic way of life, with its culture, language, and so on, was conceived as a reflection of Virat, the Cosmic Person. The uniqueness of this civilization was the approach it took to discover this truth: it commenced the search for Reality from within. Thus, the most sublime and infinite ideas of the Atman were developed, which resulted in superb infinite conce