ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ideas of Einstein and Tagore can be synthesised from the perspective of an Indian Vedantic tradition called the Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta (GVV), which features a relational conception of matter. It examines their respective positions: Tagore's notion of relational truth via his religion', and Einstein's demand for objective truth in science. Tagore's reference to Indian philosophy' in the dialogue certainly is scriptural, for Brahman is espoused in a central text of the Hindu tradition called Vedanta. The distinction in the doctrine of Maya between the monistic Vedanta. In monistic Vedanta, the material world is illusory and matter itself is illusory. The GVV concept of elements, which is quite different from that of the Greeks, talks of material objects arising out of relational percepts. The GVV holds that Brahman as a Person is unitary and represents the energetic aspect, while Brahman as energy has two broad categories: chit and achit, consciousness and matter.
