Trinity Test

TRINITY TEST “If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme splendor of the Lord”(Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 12) “ When the soul looks upon the Divine Sun the brightness dazzles it ....and very often it remains completely blind, absorbed and amazed by all the wonders it sees” ( St. Teresa) “Thy whole body shall be full of light” (Jesus Christ) "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... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds"-J. Robert Oppenheimer as he thought while chanting the verse 11.12 on seeing the first explosion of atom bomb in the desert of Alamogordo. (Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 12). Mark the words 'burst','death', 'shatterer'; these words are not there in the original verse.Oppenheimer was a scholar in Sanskrit as well. Alamogordo, New Mexico,July 16, 1945 Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds A waste land, Oppenheimer looked back. © RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY 28 October, 2014