J.R.Oppenheimer and 'Geeta'
Dr.Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who is also regarded as “the father of the atomic bomb”.had died on 17th Feb. in 1967, in his early 60's..When the first explosion took place under "Operation Manhattan" on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer l remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
The 'shok' 12 from chapter 11 of 'Shrimadbhagvad Gita, that occurred to his mind reads as
” Divi surya sahastrasya bhaved yugapad utthita
Yadi bhah sadrashi sa syat bhasastasya mahatmanah”
(दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता |
यदि भा: सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मन: ||)
Meaning. “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would be the splendour of the mighty One”.
(divi—in the sky; sūrya—suns; sahasrasya—thousand; bhavet—were; yugapat—simultaneously; utthitā—rising; yadi—if; bhāḥ—splendor; sadṛiśhī—like; sā—that; syāt—would be; bhāsaḥ—splendor; tasya—of them; mahā-ātmanaḥ—the great personality)
iIn a television interview in 1965, the prescient Dr Oppenheimer said: “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed (immediately after the nuclear explosion), 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 (Arjuna) that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form, and says: “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”.
The 'shok' 12 from chapter 11 of 'Shrimadbhagvad Gita, that occurred to his mind reads as
” Divi surya sahastrasya bhaved yugapad utthita
Yadi bhah sadrashi sa syat bhasastasya mahatmanah”
(दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता |
यदि भा: सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मन: ||)
Meaning. “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would be the splendour of the mighty One”.
(divi—in the sky; sūrya—suns; sahasrasya—thousand; bhavet—were; yugapat—simultaneously; utthitā—rising; yadi—if; bhāḥ—splendor; sadṛiśhī—like; sā—that; syāt—would be; bhāsaḥ—splendor; tasya—of them; mahā-ātmanaḥ—the great personality)
iIn a television interview in 1965, the prescient Dr Oppenheimer said: “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed (immediately after the nuclear explosion), 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 (Arjuna) that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form, and says: “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”.
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