“#Foundation” S2E4: Empire general turned war criminal, is given a #BhagavadGita lecture

Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur today pulled up the film certification body, popularly called the censor board, over 'objectionable' scenes in 'Oppenheimer' film which released in India last weekend.
#BhagavadGita #Oppenheimer #SexScene #MinisterDemandCuts
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/oppenheimer-sex-scene-oppenheimer-bhagavad-gita-scene-anurag-thakur-upset-at-objectionable-seen-in-oppenheimer-minister-pulls-up-film-certification-bo-4235672

The biopic of Robert Oppenheimer, the mind behind the world's first atomic bomb, released on Friday. While the film has set the box office ringing, one scene in the Christopher Nolan epic hasn't gone down well with some Indian movie-goers.
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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/oppenheimer-sets-global-box-office-ringing-but-a-complaint-in-india-over-sex-scene-featuring-bhagvad-gita-4233257

#Oppenheimer quoting the #BhagavadGita IRL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZqfTOxFhY

The Quote compares the Trinity Test to the Gita’s visions of God. First, the radiance of a thousand suns. Then, the black, wrathful mushroom cloud, a Destroyer of Worlds.

Like Arjun, the dutiful soldier, Oppenheimer’s labour is also rewarded with a vision from God.

And like all soldiers, the vision they are granted is of the End of the World.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

Oppenheimer does NOT think he is God the Destroyer. I believe the “I” in The Quote confuses people. Oppenheimer does not think he is God or Frankenstein.

Oppenheimer thinks he is Arjun. A soldier who has to do a dirty job, because it is his duty to fight good people led by villains.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

Arjun is convinced by Krishna-as-God that what needs to happen needs to happen and that, as a soldier, he has a job to do.

Later in the Gita, Arjun receives visions of God: God as Nature, as the Pantheon, God as Essence, and, in the end, God as Destroyer.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

Prince Arjun, a mighty warrior, is overcome with doubt and conscience. How can killing so many good, noble people, his own relatives, be right? He can’t fight.

Perhaps in the oldest version Krishna just told him to man up. But the later Gita stops time and has Krishna as the voice of God expound philosophically on how to live, in a message to all.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

The Bhagavad Gita is likely a multi-authored work, inserted into a massive multi-generationally authored encyclopaedic Ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharat.

The core story is that of a mythologised civil war; there are good people and good arguments on both sides, but the protagonists’ side is led by a good would-be king, the antagonists by a villain.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

As Oppenheimer reaches cinemas, The Quote gets much repeated.

For folks who haven’t read the Bhagavad Gita, a thread on why the most obvious interpretation of The Quote is, IMHO, wrong.

#Oppenheimer #BhagavadGita

‘Cillian Murphy’s… process for #Oppenheimer included reading the #BhagavadGita’ https://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1682130274212085763

Cillian Murphy reveals he read Bhagavad Gita to prepare for his 'Oppenheimer' role #CillianMurphy #BhagavadGita #Oppenheimer #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/07/14/cillian-murphy-reveals-he-read-bhagavad-gita-to-prepare-for-his-oppenheimer-role/

My favorite crossover event is Gita #Barbenheimer. #BhagavadGita

The #GandhiPeacePrize for 2021 will be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur, one of the largest publishers of religious texts such as the #BhagavadGita, the Ramayana and the Upanishads.
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Seeking a #guru. Seeking #wisdom and #enlightenment and #understanding and #ananda and away from #avidya.
Away from the #common and #low mindedness. The wisdom of the words of the Bhagavad Gita

#BhagavadGita and #Brahma

जिस प्रकार अग्नि स्वर्ण को परखती है, उसी प्रकार संकट वीर पुरुषों को।

Just as fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong men.

#BhagavadGita

जिस प्रकार अग्नि स्वर्ण को परखती है, उसी प्रकार संकट वीर पुरुषों को परखते हैं।

Just as fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong men.

#BhagavadGita

5. "Justice on both sides"

Arjun's brothers, allies and others he loves will pay a price in the war he is about to wage. But haven't they, too, played a part in bringing it about?

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4. "Love worth killing for"

When contemplating his enemies' misdeeds, Arjun recognises the war is unavoidable. Will he feel the same when reflecting on the compassion they have shown him, too?

(Notes: This clip includes bright flashes of light that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.)

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#Morning #MaryOliver:

PERCY (ONE)

Our new #dog, named for the beloved #poet, ate a #book which unfortunately we had left unguarded. Fortunately it was the #BhagavadGita, of which many copies are available. Every day now, as Percy grows into the #beauty of his #life, we touch his #wild, curly head and say, “Oh, wisest of little dogs.”

-from #Devotions