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In Hinduism what is the significance of "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" ?

I know its something Oppenheimer refered to in his biography,and its from some Hindu myth

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  • 3 years ago

    oppenheimer quoted it with the explosion test of the first atomic bomb, but something abiut a histroy of war that went nuclear is also mentioned in the Hindu texts, in fact there are videos about sand being melted into glass

  • ssrvj
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Professor Joseph Oppenheimer knows Srimath Bhagavat Gita FULLY (700 verses) --otherwise it is IMPOSSIBLE to recall Just ONLY ONE Line from ONLY ONE Verse from Bhagavat Gita within a "FLICKER OF AN EYE LID" -at a crucial Moment of his LIFE

    https://youtu.be/ZuRvBoLu4t0

    you tube => Oppenheimer Quotes out of Hinduism's Bhagavad Gita after the first Nuclear explosion.

    Bhagavan Sri.KRISHNA in Bhagavat Gita in the "SAME VERSE" ( BG-10-34) says => I am LIFE (BIRTH) and Promoter of Birth (Life)

    Professor Joseph Oppenheimer recalled to his memory the Appropriate sentence of the verse for the Occasion => An ATOM BOMB is NOT LIFE (BIRTH) —nor PROMOTOR OF LIFE ---Atom Bomb is DEATH and Destroys and Annihilates LIFE

    BHAGAVAT GITA => 10-34 => मृत्युः सर्वहरश्चाहमुद्भवश्च भविष्यताम्। (10:34) => " DEATH I am among All the Destroyers (Annihilators) --I am the Beginning of LIFE (BIRTH) --INCLUDING ALL that have to come to Being in Future (BHAVISHYATHAAM)

    Bhagavat Gita -10-32 --Sri.Krishna makes it More Explicit => "I am the CREATOR (at the beginning) --SAVIOR (in the middle ) and ONE who brings Life to an End at the End --in Visva rupa Dharisanam Arjuna says All living things come out and Enter into Bhagavan Sri.KRISHNA

    BHAGAVAT GITA IS THE MOST BRILLIANT RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURE THE WORLD HAS EVER PRODUCED

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    BRILLIANT WESTERN SCHOLARS’ COMMENTS ON BHAGAVAT GITA

    (1)Henry David Thoreau (American Scholar) : In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.

    (2) Dr. Albert Schweitzer: The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

    (3) Carl Jung (Famous Psychologist) : The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states…” behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant.” This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of Bhagavad-Gita.

    (4) Herman Hesse(German Scholar) : The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

    (5) Ralph Waldo Emerson(American Scholar) : I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.

    (6) Rudolph Steiner(German Scholar) : In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

    (7) Aldous Huxley (British Scholar) : The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

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