Transcript India - lokniketan

J. Robert Oppenheimer,
American nuclear physicist
(1904-1967):
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the
sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. . . .
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.“
Oppenheimer "the father of the atomic bomb" quoting from
the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the
mushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world’s
first atomic bomb in New Mexico, U.S.A., on July 16, 1945.
“Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may
claim over all previous centuries. “
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Victor Cousin,
French Philosopher
(1792-1867):
"When we read the poetical and philosophical monuments of
the East –
above all, those of India,
which are beginning to spread in Europe –
we discover there many a truth,
and truths so profound,
and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the
results at which European genius has sometimes stopped,
that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy
of the East,
and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of
the highest philosophy.“
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