When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
Interpretation
The quote expresses that understanding the divine creation of the universe gives deeper significance to life, rendering other concerns trivial.
In this quote, Albert Einstein highlights the profound impact that studying the Bhagavad-Gita has had on his perspective of life and the universe. He suggests that contemplating the nature of divine creation transcends everyday worries and trivialities, emphasizing the importance of spiritual and philosophical understanding over material concerns. This reflection points to a belief that true understanding and meaning come from a higher consciousness rather than mundane aspects of existence.
In practice
In a discussion about spirituality, one might say, 'As Einstein said, when I read the Bhagavad-Gita, everything else seems so superfluous.'
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.
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