Einstein met
Rabindranath in 1930 at Einstein's home near Berlin. Among other things they
had a remarkable conversation about nature of Universe. To Einstein universe was objective..that is, it exists independent of whether I or you or anybody exists
in it. This is simple to conceive. After all universe was there before my birth
and will remain after my death. Tagore's view, on the other hand, was that universe is subjective, Let us think about Tagore's view. The
universe I know or feel is only within my consciousness. Without my conscious
experience of the universe there is no other universe. This universe exists
only within my consciousness ( so does your's). So universe is subjective. It is there because of our conscious experience of it. There is no
universe without our consciousness. So both Einstein and Tagore were correct, isn’t
it? Now if we take a little help of simple algebra, like a=b, we must admit
that objective universe= subjective universe. That is, outside=inside.
Therefore everything is One. That is what Upanishads say. You are the universe
and the One. Not your body,but the eternal consciousness that dwells inside
you. That is unborn and deathless. Since everything is One, it is
independent of time and space because time and space means separation. If there is only One there is no time and space in it. It is eternal and
deathless, So the big 'I' inside you and I are one and this is unborn and immortal.
