All sciences study
Being.
Physics is the Science of Being as Matter.
Mathematics is the
Science of Being as Numbers.
Chemistry is the Science of Being as
Qualities
Biology is the Science of Being as Life.
But the Scientia
Prima, the First Science, Vedanta Sastra, is the Science of Being as Being, in
its pure state. And in its pure state, it is as Absolute Being !
And what
is the Absolute ? It is one immutably homogenous Infinite.
The Universe
has no center or circumference. It would have had a circumference, if it had a
center. Since the Universe has no center or circumference, and since it could
not be enclosed in any center or circumference, it would be unintelligible,
without Being, without the Absolute, as the Center and the
Circumference.
The Philosophia Prima, the First Philosophy, was the name
given by Locke to Ontology and later by Hobbes to Metaphysics !
In our
terminology, this is the First Science, the Scientia Prima, the Adi Sastra, the
Prathama Sastra, the Vedanta Sastra !
