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mknod · 4276 days ago · link · · parent · post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?
J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project during the second world war, became quite interested in things outside of the sciences including the Hindu religion. An anecdote from one of the first tests of the atomic bomb, he had translated a phrase from the Bhagavad Gita where Vishnu changes into his many armed form and says : "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" This just gives me chills every time I read it. Sects of Hinduism see death more as a renewal rather than the western idea of "death as end", so that creates a whole other aspect to the verse.