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Inspired by seeing the movie Oppenheimer, I decided to pick up The Bhagavad Gita, which Oppenheimer references a couple of times in the movie.  However, I wanted to read it in English, not Sanskrit, so I found the translation by Ann Stanford.

This is a poem that speaks to all men on the most basic level. It probes man’s eternal motives and attempts to understand what it is to live, and to die. It was written sometime between the fifth and second centuries before Christ, somewhere in the north of India. It has survived because it teaches in a…

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