The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

 

The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

The path of the spirit is so simple that a child can walk in it; but grown up people who have complicated minds, for them the path is as sharp as the blade of razor. The simple minded are ever protected by the Divine Mother and She creates such an atmosphere about them that nothing can touch them. Everyone can acquire this atmosphere. Whatever you really want, you can gain. The power is within you. But you can not do it if you take the egotistic point of vice. If, however, you surrender to Divine Mother and pray to Her with whole-hearted devotion, then nothing can prevent you from moving onward. You are sure to attain.

            What you want is the living quality in the spiritual life. You must be spiritually living before you can enjoy life. You must know what life is. You must have a full consciousness of its meaning and purpose, so that even when things go wrong you will be able to stand up and face the difficulty like a true child of God. You must go round and round your being. You must penetrate into every corner with the light of wisdom, so that nothing is hidden from you. You must arise, awake and shake off all lethargy.

Then when you begin to live, every thing will begin to live for you. As long as you are spiritually dead, as long as your heart is deadened by thinking constantly of matter, everything must seem dead to you. But as soon as you are living, living things will come to you. Whenever the soul is ready the seed comes; so when your heart is properly prepared and ready to receive the living seed, the life giving force then it will surely come. You cannot expect someone else to give you a beautiful vision of blessedness. He might do it but you could not keep it. You must prepare the field by earnestness, humility, child-like simplicity and faith.

 

What Einstein can teach theists and atheists

 

By Sumit Paul

 

Was Albert Einstein an atheist or a believer? Neither. The theoretical physicist never called himself an atheist, something the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett will have you believe. Einstein was an agnostic, a sanshyatma, sceptic, in the true sense of oriental philosophical traditions. He believed that God could never be understood through a rigmarole of religious and ritualistic mumbo-jumbo. His nirakar, formless, God was a transcendental consciousness.

 

Finding God

 

Einstein found God in the perfect symmetry of the cosmos. His cosmic religion and distant deistic God of cosmic order and elegance fit neither the agenda of religious believers nor that of tribal atheists. His highly evolved scientific brain never anthropomorphised God the way general people do.

 

 

He never attended religious services or prayed. He could not conceive of a God who punished and rewarded people, partly because he was a thoroughgoing determinist. Einstein repeatedly distanced himself from the idea of a personal God. He refused a traditional Jewish burial. All in all, not very religious. But he was a spiritual man and a moralist who abhorred wars to the point of being an irenic, a pacifist.

 

Religion an impediment

 

The spiritual facet of Einstein’s persona underlines that one doesn’t have to tie oneself to the apron-strings of any organised religion whatsoever. His whole life was a living manifestation of the exalted spiritual concept of Sufis, called Shavanaaii, ‘belief sans religion’ in Persian. “The soi-disant God is independent of all religions. In sooth, religion is an impediment to reaching and realising God,” he wrote to his friend and fellow Nobel laureate Niels Bohr.

 

Einstein hated extremism both in belief and unbelief and tellingly wrote in 1940, “There are fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics.” The atheists may lap up the words in a letter written to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, “The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible, a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

 

But the same ‘atheist’ Einstein could euphorically say in public that Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms’ ethereal creations were ‘God’s symphonies’.

 

Ultimate compass

 

Einstein’s God was the epitome of the highest moralistic virtue and value. His God was a metaphor for immaculate existence and a spotless spirit of Elysian blissfulness. In other words, Einstein saw God as the ultimate compass of universal rectitude and perfection. He could strike an admirable balance between theism and atheism. That’s why, his amorphous spiritual fluidity is happily atheistic to non-believers and satisfactorily theistic to believers.

 

To sum it up, like his famous Theory of Relativity, Einstein’s God was a relative concept and a fiercely subjective perception, which wasn’t a part of a universal belief system.

 

 Today is Albert Einstein’s birth anniversary

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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