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7 unusual facts about Bhagavad Gita


18.61

The title of the album references the 61st couplet of the 18th chapter of the sacred Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.

Chanting the Light of Foresight

"Song Announcing Dawn's Combat" depicts foster brothers and main character adversaries Cúchulainn and Ferdia and uses 7/8 rhythms, pulsing drones, and Hindustani scales to refer to the Bhagavad Gita.

Corporate Avenger

In the song 'The Bible is Bullshit' the band claims that the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita are responsible for a large portion of the world's pain, suffering, and bloodshed.

Destroyer of Worlds

The album's title is taken from a famous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer about the atomic bomb: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds", which was itself quoted from verse 32 of chapter 11 in the Bhagavad Gita.

Laurie L. Patton

Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita in the Penguin Classics Series follows a free verse style constrained by eight line stanzas.

Road to Emmaus appearance

Commenting on a dream of Wolfgang Pauli Jung stated that the road to Emmaus appearance was similar to Krishna and Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, and to Moses and El-Khidr in Sura 18 of the Koran.

Robert Charles Zaehner

(c) the bhakti mysticism of love, per the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Ramanuja.


Anandmurti Gurumaa

Gurumaa conducted series of discourses on various spiritual texts of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, budhists like Bhagavad Gita, japji sahib, rehraas sahib, jaap sahib of Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Gita, Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatkam and Bhaja Govindam, Narada Bhakti Sutra and poetries of sufi mystics like Baba Bulle Shah, baba farid and Rumi.

Kashmir Shaivism

As a monistic tantric system, Trika Shaivism, as it is also known, draws teachings from shrutis, such as the monistic Bhairava Tantras, Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta, and also a unique version of the Bhagavad Gita which has a commentary by Abhinavagupta, known as the Gitartha Samgraha.

Maulana Azad Library

Abul Faiz Faizi, an eminent scholar of Akbar's court translated several Sanskrit works into Persian, such as Mahapurana, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharat and Lilavati; these are available.

Nabinchandra Sen

He wrote biographies of Jesus, Buddha, and Cleopatra in the Bengali language, and made verse translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Markandeya Purana.

Paramatman

The followers of Madhava draw their support from the Bhagavad Gita XV.16 that speaks about two persons in this world, the Mutable and the Immutable; the Mutable is all these things, while the Immutable is the one who exists at the top of them, one is the Jivatman and the other, Paramatman.

T. Subbarami Reddy

At the 1993 National Film Award, he won Best Film award as Producer for Bhagavad Gita (1993).

Tilok Chand Mehroom

When he died, his pall-bearers were two Hindus, one Muslim & one Sikh, and the Dasween (ceremony performed on the 10th day after death) included recitals from the Vedas & Bhagavad Gita (Hindu), the Qura'an (Muslim) and Sukhmani Sahib (Sikh).


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Gangadharendra Saraswati

Later former Higher Education Minister of Government of Karnataka V. S. Acharya also supported Mr. Kageri by saying the programme should not be seen as religious teaching and there is no connection between Bhagavad Gita and religion.

Gour Govinda Swami

Carrying only a Bhagavad-gita and a begging bowl he wandered around India for one year and visited many sacred places along the river Ganges.

Influence of Bhagavad Gita

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.

Ravula Suryanarayana Murty

Other major works include Padmavathi Srinivasam, Mallepoolu, and Bhagavad Gita, copies of which are sold in lakhs, and a Telugu version of Émile Zola's Shame.