Brahman. Einstein Spinoza

A Einstein was not a religious person, he believed in spirituality but not religion. He sometimes used the word religion or religious as synonyms with spirituality. He also used to not believe in a personal God, but a formless God. Einstein believed in a God as propagated by the Dutch philosopher called Baruth de Spinoza. Einstein & Spinoza can be called an agnostic in the sense that they opposed the concept of God prevalent in Judaism and Christianity. But actually they were theists. Spinoza’s God is omnipresent, formless and personalityless, similar to the Brahman in Hinduism.

A Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract, which you perceive, can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.NDM

A Those who are interested in that special attitude towards the universe which is now loosely called "mystical," find themselves beset by a multitude of persons who are constantly asking--some with real fervour, some with curiosity, and some with disdain-- "What _is_ mysticism?" When referred to the writings of the mystics themselves, and to other works in which this question appears to be answered, these people reply that such books are wholly incomprehensible to them.

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On the other hand, the genuine inquirer will find before long a number of self-appointed apostles who are eager to answer his question in many strange and inconsistent ways, calculated to increase rather than resolve the obscurity of his mind. He will learn that mysticism is a philosophy, an illusion, a kind of

religion, a disease; that it means having visions, performing conjuring tricks, leading an idle, dreamy, and selfish life, neglecting one's business, wallowing in vague spiritual emotions, and being "in tune with the infinite." He will discover that it emancipates him from all dogmas--sometimes from all morality-- and at the same time that it is very superstitious. One expert tells him that it is simply "Catholic piety," another that Walt Whitman was a typical mystic; a third assures him that all mysticism comes from the East, and supports his statement by an appeal to the mango trick. At the end of a prolonged course of lectures, sermons, tea-parties, and talks with earnest persons, the inquirer is still heard saying--too often in tones of exasperation--"What _is_ mysticism?"

A. How can the mind be made to vanish? 

Maharishi: No attempt is made to destroy it. To think or wish it is itself a thought. If the thinker is sought, the thoughts will disappear.RM

A How can the mind be made to vanish? 

Maharishi: No attempt is made to destroy it. To think or wish it is itself a thought. If the thinker is sought, the thoughts will disappear.

A Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. The mystic is a person who has attained that union in greater or less degree; or who aims at and believes in such attainment.

A he great Sufi who said that "Pilgrimage to the place of the wise, is to escape the flame of separation" spoke the literal truth. Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who "keep themselves to themselves," and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.

A. What, out of the mass of material offered to it, shall consciousness seize upon--with what aspects of the universe shall it "unite"?

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