"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." ~ Albert Einstein


"I go into the Upanishads to ask questions"- Niels Bohr

Einstein reflecting on how GOD creATED the universe???

Maybe sir albert is trying to explain how the gita precisely shows the creation of universe..btw if you dont know sir bohr,he is the one who proposed the atomic theory.the whole basis of chemistry today.

Mr-Talkative wrote:

Maybe sir albert is trying to explain how the gita precisely shows the creation of universe..btw if you dont know sir bohr,he is the one who proposed the atomic theory.the whole basis of chemistry today.

Ok I haven't read much of Gita. Can you tell me what does it tell about the Creation?

And please be specific about the topic of discussion.

Goell wrote:

Einstein reflecting on how GOD creATED the universe???

Yeah... He recognized that the universe was created, but he didn't necessarily believe in God as a being the God of the Bible.

Longloadr wrote:

Goell wrote: Einstein reflecting on how GOD creATED the universe??? Yeah... He recognized that the universe was created, but he didn't necessarily believe in God as a being the God of the Bible.

He wasn't exactly short on stuff to say about religions full stop!

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."

I think these two are also worth adding:

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. ... For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong ... have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them."

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."

It should also be recalled Einstein spent the vast majority of his enormous talent and industry on science, not on answering questions theologians and philosophers addressed. It was clear religious and philosophical questions were important to him, but they were not the focal point of his work.

Just love einstein...

Yet he found peace in the bhagvad gita.

This is a link which shows what is creation of universe according to the bhagvad gita,

i quote from the wikipedia

"According to Hindu Philosophy, the universe (or multiverse) never came to be at some particular point, but always has been, always will be, but is perpetually in flux. Space and time are of cyclical nature. This universe is simply the current one, which is in flux and constantly changing, when it finally ceases to manifest, a new one will arise. An interesting parallel to these ideas can be found in the ekpyrotic model of the universe. This concept is also accepted by Buddhist Dharma.

This is similar to the Cyclical Universe Theory in physical cosmology. The Big Bang is described as the birth of the universe (Brahma), the life of the universe then follows (Vishnu), and the Big Crunch would be described as the destruction of the universe (Shiva)."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cycle_of_the_universe#Hindu_viewpoint_of_modern_cosmology


Do you friends think it is more precise than

"He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth." (The Qur'an, 6:101)

or the Genesis???

"yet he found peace in the bhagvad gita"...Einstein to say the least had a patronising attitude to all religion,why should he find peace in it???