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...just as God once spoke to the world through Jesus and Mohammed, so he revealed himself to modern man through Bab and Baha'u'llah, whose teachings surpass those of older prophets. Bahai believers, who have no ministry, read impartially from the Koran, the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita at their simple worship services. "Bahai expounds the truth," explains Mrs. Rabbani, "and no religion has a monopoly on the truth...
...doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty...
Doing a stage version of E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, is a little like trying to rewrite the Bhagavad-Gita as a sonnet. In the 36 years since its publication, one of the 20th century's great novels has again and again mocked the attempts of adapters; its widespread profusion of scenes and its intricate undertones to a clash of cultures long eluded the stage. Last week in Oxford, the professional Oxford Playhouse proved that the job had at last been done, and successfully. The adapter, in her first try at drama: Santha Rama...
Phrases"), Milady, Your Figure!, Relaxation by Suggestive Therapy, and a discussion of the Kinsey Report. Folkways recorded a part of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit; Audio Book Co. recorded all 27 books of the New Testament on 26 seven-inch disks, which can be played in a mere 23 hours 30 minutes (price...
They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...