Mid terms are round the corner and Diwali has passed us by.

The very Idea of having a class on the eve of Diwali brings chills in my body. According to Indian customs, we don't study on Diwali, it's inauspicious, which sounds a bit irrational but thats how some customs are.

This class was again a fun ride as always, the presentation on India filled me up with a sense of proud and may be with curiosity towards India in others.

I'm an avid follower of Gita - the Gospel of life given to us humans by Lord Krishna which is a part of world's oldest and longest mythological document named as "Mahabharat".

It was really nice to find out that Sir Albert Eienstein was a believer in Gita, which turned into a search and I landed on this document :

Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism... the most sacred of all scriptures existing on Mother Earth... the doctrine given to mankind by Lord Krishna is without a parallel! This is the first and only scripture available on Mother Earth that makes it possible for human beings to reach the stage of enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) and finally salvation (moksha).

Bhagavad Gita can never be understood literally. One needs reading in between the lines to understand the essence of Wisdom contained in Bhagavad Gita. Mounted with a bloated ego, wanton desires and greed for materialistic riches most human beings on Mother Earth try reading Bhagavad Gita literally! They remain wherever they are always and ever!

Bhagavad Gita gives the gist of life for both the ephemeral and the inner world. Whenever we get stuck in our day-to-day affairs of life it is Bhagavad Gita that comes to our rescue. Mahatma Gandhi relied on Bhagavad Gita most of the time. In the present times E. Sreedharan the man behind Metro in New Delhi follows the Sacred Bhagavad Gita considering it sacrosanct!

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana... both gained enlightenment in their lifetime by following the Wisdom contained in the Sacred Bhagavad Gita. Both started in search of God through the path of Bhakti yoga. At a certain stage in life the path of Bhakti yoga finally merges with the path of jnana yoga!

Truthfully spirituality is much beyond the fold of science. Spirituality starts from the place where science ends. It is something beyond proofs that paves way to understand the sacrosanct Bhagavad Gita! And that something is the power of absolute faith (aka Shraddha in Hinduism).

In the last moments of his life when Albert Einstein realized his folly... he let go his ego, the search for proofs and Bhagavad Gita started unfurling before him slowly. But it was too late by then. Albert Einstein had grown old and in spite of all his serious desires and wishes in the later stages of his life... he could not assimilate the Wisdom of entire Bhagavad Gita!

Albert Einstein throughout his life wanted to follow Bhagavad Gita from the angle of science. He bitterly failed. Science is necessary for living our day-to-day life. The Sacred Bhagavad Gita makes us reach our true inner self... our soul atman within! The moment one realizes the truth of life... one finally gains enlightenment and then salvation!

Albert Einstein is the only scientist in the world who used his brain 4%. Most human beings never use their brain more than 1%! All enlightened ones use their brain hundred percent! Albert Einstein was far above normal human beings... other scientists of his era! Whatever little he deciphered from the Sacred Bhagavad Gita... he felt absolutely elated!

http://www.vijaykumar.org/albert_einstein_and_bhagavad_gita.html