Typo: should say “if the latter really is “the real thing”.

Thank you for your comment about my previous post #78. It’s just my own approach to religious matters.

A healthy faith is also something that can wrap itself around whatever scientific discovery shows to be true and integrate it without changing its essential character.

Exactly — spot on. There should be no “mismatch” between the two, if both the religion and the scientific research are deemed to be correct and accurate; genuine, confirmed, inalienable scientific discovery should not be able to “debunk” any of the religion’s tenets if the latter really is to be “the real thing”.

Of course, there are possibly going to be some religious concepts that are “beyond science” (eg. I don’t think God or the “soul” can be put under a microscope or analysed using any scientific method), but — as mentioned previously — any claims the religion makes with regards to history, physics, astronomy, biology etc should be compatible with corresponding scientific research and advances.

Well, cause and effect is translated as Kaaran and Kaarya. Looking for a cause is way more scientific than looking for a reason. The west looks for reason because they believe that God has a divine will. Several books have been written on how western science actually developed from attempts to figure out what this divine will of god (reason) might be.

yes

Like ‘yukti’, reason too is a vast word. Which particular meaning of the word would like a Hindi/Sanskrit word for?

Wouldn’t samajh mean “comprehension” or “understand”?

Or am I getting it mixed up with another word?

wajahh is right. samajh would be deep thought, not reason