Let's take a look at which of Technology or Spirituality is more useful to the development of and sustenance of human race as a whole.

Technology, we see, is the foundation of our modern lifestyle. Industrialization, which revolutionized our living standards was driven by innovative technologies in the field of transport like roads, rail and air.

Prediction of vagaries of weather, warnings of cyclones and tornados, global warming, ozone layer cracking, nuclear fission and satellite supremacy are all due to technological researches carried out by groups of scientists backed by their governments.

Further examples are improved telecommunications, the revolution of internet surfing, and the hand held cell phones. We cannot even imagine how we could have lived without these contrivances.

On the other hand, Spiritualists argue that malaises facing humanity can only be ameliorated by means of lateral thinking with a variety of solutions being employed. This novel approach could usher in an era of health and happiness to the world, they say..

Is there any possibility to have a symbiotic relationship between these two opposite irreconcilable approaches or is the dichotomy a fool proof entity about which we can do nothing?

When we visit a huge giant I.T office, we are destined to see the robot like appearances of the staff, sitting in front of their computer screens devoid of artistic niceties which we find in other offices.

We also learn that they are overworked for more than 14 hours a day. What has happened to the concern of their health and future?

Bill Gates, who is the forerunner of I T industry in the world who has amassed huge wealth, has opened a foundation for the benefit of children plagued by poverty and diseases in developing countries.

Many pop singers and famous actors of Hollywood are spending huge amounts of money for the uplift of aids patients all over the world.

At the other end, the great Buddhist leader, Dalai Lama has opened a website on the internet at www.dalailama.com to encourage the study of Buddhism all over the world.

He has been joined by many other religious heads and institutions who have opened their websites for propaganda and education purposes.

One group thinks that the mankind’s ultimate refuge is only in the Technology The other group wants to put back the clock to tribal and jungle ways of living to generate the cohesion necessary for the survival of mankind.

In conclusion we have to point out that unbridled Technology cannot alone bring happiness to mankind. Nor going back to caves and jungles is the answer.

A symbiotic relationship between Technology and Spiritualism can certainly complement each other’s efforts to bring about a lasting change in the lifestyle of mankind and thus save it from the destructive path which made earlier civilizations vanish into air.