Bhagavad-Gita

For example, she quotes Crookes s assertions of vitalism at the chemical level as an antidote to the heat-death of the universe that seemed to be entailed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics (1888, 1 603), or second-hand accounts of his lectures on the protyle, with assertions of its similarity to thinking in the Bhagavad Gita (1 681). 

The rest is history - history that transformed the twentieth century, history that divides one kind of world from another. Oppenheimer, Szilard, Bohr, Fermi, and the others knew that this was indeed the significance of their quest, and for the most part they were as exhilarated by the challenge as they were dismayed by the goal. At the Trinity test of July 1945, when the first nuclear bomb was exploded in the Nevada desert, Oppenheimer recalled words from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. To the US military, on the other hand, this was just a bomb - albeit one powerful enough to cow the Japanese emperor into submission and end the murderous war in the Pacific. 

Jinarajadasa, C. The Bhagavad Gita, Theosophical Publishing House Adyar, Madras, India, 1915 http //www.theosophical.ca/adyarj3amphlets/ AdyarPamphlet No59.pdf (accessed February 2, 2010). 

Swami Prabhupada, A. C. B. Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Collier Books New York, 1972 p 419. 

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In the Hindu scripture, in the Bhagavad-Gita, it says, Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is. The faith of Roosevelt is one that is shared by millions of men and women in every country of the world. For this reason it is possible to maintain the hope, for this reason it is right that we should dedicate ourselves to the hope, that his good works will not have ended with his death. 

We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him he takes on his multiarmed form and says, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. 

The perception that Earth is a fragile body and easily thrown out of balance by the hand of man may have surfaced for the first time after the Trinity nuclear test on July 16,1945, when Robert Oppenheimer quoted the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita (English Song of God ) text I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds " ... 

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