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...highbrowish Vedanta Society, and a number of other religious groups, the Self-Realization Fellowship is a syncretic faith, combining ingredients of both Eastern and Western religions. The Fellowship teaches that there is a common truth behind all religious experience, and the members revere both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Fellowship doctrine even includes an interpretation of the Christian Trinity: the Father is the supreme creating spirit, the Son is his visible manifestation through Christ, Krishna and Buddha, and the Holy Spirit is the energy by which God influences the world. According to Fellowship teachings, every man can achieve salvation...
...next-to-last visit to Widener Library was just like all the ones before it. I wanted a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, dutifully filled out the little blue card, and waited with the frame of mind of a life-long Washington Senators fan for the girl behind the call desk to tell...
...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...