Bhagvat Geetha

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The 2 greatest scientists of modern times Albert Einstein and Openheimer drew great inspirations from Bhagvat Geetha and kept a copyof the Deetha in their study along with their other books.Here is an account of Openheimer's love for Geetha.

This neuclear scientist was influenced by the gita as he derives the neuclear bomb knowledge from it."Oppenheimer acquired a deeper knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita in 1933 when, as a young professor of physics with interests ranging far beyond his academicspecialty, he studied Sanskrit with ProfessorArthur W. Ryder at Berkeley. The Gita, Oppenheimer excitedly wrote to his brother, was "very easy and quite marvelous."40 This is the earliest direct evidenceof the impression the book made on Oppenheimer, and a lasting impression it was. Later he called the Gita "the most beautiful philosophical song existingin any known tongue." He kept a well-worn copy of it conveniently on hand on the bookshelf closest to his desk and often gave the book (in translation)to friends as a present. He continued to browse in it while directing the bomb laboratory. After President FranklinRoosevelt's death in April 1945, Oppenheimer spoke at a memorial service at Los Alamos and quoted a passage from the Gita. Clearly this ancient book wason his mind as the atomic bomb neared completion, even before he saw the dazzling fireball from the Trinity test. In later years, too, he would look backon the Gita as one of the most important influences in his life. In 1963, Christian Century magazine asked him to list the ten books that "did most toshape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life." Alongwith Shakespeare's Hamlet and Eliot's Waste Land, Oppenheimer listed the Gita. The Bhagavad-Gita, whose title can be translated as the "Song of the Lord,"44is a masterpiece and monument of Hinduism. One expert calls it "the most important single text for 'Hindu' religion,"....."

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