The method of studying, analysing and understanding physical phenomenon has its great utility in the physical domain. The accuracy and predictability are somewhat more reliable here because in gross matter, there is not the free play of other subtler domains. But to extrapolate the same method thoughtlessly in the spiritual domain may lead to gross errors.
The reason is threefold. Firstly, our equipment is not yet geared to register and record subtler energy impacts. We are still too bound by the limits of our earth sense and physical facts still remain for us the only facts. However in these we can find the presence of the anomalous and the unpredictable. As all practitioners of medicine know, medicine is not an exact science like mathematics.
Secondly, there is a whole range of phenomena which are subjective and cannot be measured. And yet these may be quite crucial in matters of health and healing. E.g. peace and faith are two such non-measurable units that do determine our state of health.
Thirdly, and most importantly, scientific methods deal with phenomena. But as spiritual experience constantly affirms, the phenomenon is not the last word of existence. There is behind every phenomenon of name and form, a supporting and sanctioning consciousness and force. It is difficult to envisage how we could possibly measure the quantum of spiritual consciousness and force in units of grams or kilograms or God-knows-what, that goes into healing a malady. Even where a method is used, there is always the secret force and consciousness that makes all the difference. The force can use one particular method or another. It may even dispense with all methods and techniques. That is why all who have pierced behind the veil of phenomena look upon everything as a marvellous act of Grace that unfolds each event in time and space. Brahman, the eternal reality extends itself as Space. The same reality in dynamic mobility becomes Time. Limited through a process of self-absorption and concentration it becomes form and process and name. This one thing, the most important fundamental thing would always escape our grasp.
