Posts Tagged ‘ Bhagavad Gita ’

Previously I noted similarities between Jesus’s teachings and Buddhism.  I recently travelled in India and toured the Vishnawara temple in Varanasi.  On the upper floor, there are Hindu sayings and scriptures carved with illustrations that give worshippers thoughts to ponder as they meditate and pray at the shrines of the gods.  Many of these sayings [...]

I am a Mormon.  I haven’t made a fancy ad of me skateboarding or anything like that, but still, I’m a Mormon.  But “why” am I a Mormon?   What makes me say that? Like many people in the Church, I was “born Mormon”.  I have ancestors who were born in Winter Quarters in 1846 on [...]

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one.” “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” – Bhagavad Gita These quotes were recalled by J Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atomic Bomb, at the Trinity test [...]