Beliefs, values

Mishra, Pankaj. "How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech".August 21, 2005.Feburary 15, 2009.<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21mishra.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2>

American scientists and businessmen are jealous that religious and moral considerations do not seem to prevent Indian biotechnologists from doing certain types of reaserch. But the difference of ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi, who is father of the Indian nation's ethics and values. Gandhi has accused modern medicine, along with much of modern sciences and technology, of being to violent and not good. He is a vegetarian and he believes in no violence no matter what. His beliefs are from traditional Indian beliefs, mainly Hinduism, which is also the faith of most indians including the scientists and buisnessmen. so they are technicly going against their faith when doing the experiments and reaserch they do today. Apparently most Christians, who believe that a embryo is a person, will probably find more support for their beliefs in Hindu texts than in the Bible. since many Hindus see the soul the true Self which they call atman as the spiritual part of peoples personalitys. After death , the soul soon finds a new temporary place to stay . So, for Hindus as much as for Catholics, life begins at conception. Old fashioned Indian medicine known as Ayurveda saysthat fetuses are alive when it is growing inside a pregnant women. This assumption is shown in "The Mahabharata," the Hindu epic about a war. But the religions and traditions we know as Hinduism are more diverse than Islam and Christianity. they have arguments that contradict eachother though. Indian thoughts of stem-cell research often offer this story as an early instance of human cloning through stem cells taken from human embryos. Other Asian scientists have also pressed myth and tradition into the service of modern science and beliefs.