Non-Indian views on Gita 1)Aldous Huxley , the English writer found Gita the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind., He also felt, Gita is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. 2) J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project , learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life. Upon witnessing the worlds first nuclear test in 1945, he later said he had thought of the quotation Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, verse 32 from Chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita. 3) Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau wrote In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial. 4) Hermann Graf Keyserling Hermann Graf Keyserling , German Philosopher regarded Bhagavad-Gita as Perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world.[10] Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse felt that the marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.[5]
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