Word: bhagavadgita
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...technical aspects of the atomic bomb. Else concerns himself primarily with the man who built the bomb. But early on, it becomes clear that the bomb itself might be easier to understand. Oppenheimer--the student of sixteenth-century French poetry, fluent in six languages, given to reading the Bhagavadgita--hardly can be filed in the mad scientist category. Else seems to appreciate Oppenheimer's complexity and doesn't try to explain the ultimate source of Oppenheimer's often contradictory behavior. Instead, he offers an exposition: he presents the incongruous, ironic and often darkly humorous facts surrounding Oppenheimer and the atomic...
Perhaps the most discouraging sign in India was the fact that factional intolerance had invaded Gandhi's own prayer meetings. Some of his followers no longer allowed him to read the Koran along with the Hindu Bhagavadgita...
...with his third novel, The Last of Mr. Norris, and a volume of stories, Goodbye to Berlin, that established him as one of Britain's most talented story tellers. In 1939 he landed in Hollywood, where he has divided his time between scriptwriting and translating Hindu religious teachings (BhagavadGita, The Song of God-TIME...
...BHAGAVADGITA, The Song of God-translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood -Marcel Rodd...
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