On Gandhi's death, Einstein wrote: He died as the victim of his own principles, because in time of disorder and general irritation in his country, he refused armed protection for himself.
On Gandhiji's 70th birthday Einstein famously wrote “Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth”.
✨ "When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe, everything else seems so superfluous." – Albert Einstein ✨ Albert Einstein, a genius of the modern age, found deep wisdom in the timeless verses of the Bhagavad Gita.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
This text was special to Oppenheimer, more than other books. He called it “the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue,” and he gave copies to friends.
One feels of him that there was much he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was frightened of saying or thinking. I have never been able to feel much liking for Gandhi, but I do not feel sure that as a political thinker he was wrong in the main, nor do I believe that his life was a failure.
"Succeeding generations will bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humanity." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru.
In the end, you will walk out, because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350,000,000 Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate. And that is what we intend to achieve: peaceful, nonviolent, non-cooperation -- till you, yourselves, see the wisdom of leaving.
'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses,' Einstein wrote to Gutkind, 'the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this. '
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Oppenheimer asks Einstein if he recalls when they worried a chain reaction from the bomb might destroy the world; Einstein remembers. “I believe we did,” Oppenheimer replies. Though the exchange came from Nolan's imagination, it really ends the movie with a bang.
Tagore first called Gandhi a Mahatma or a great soul. He said at "Gandhiji's call India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once before, in earlier times, when Buddha proclaimed the truth, of fellow feeling and compassion among all living creatures". Gandhiji called him the Great Sentinel or Gurudev".
The epigraph on Gandhi's tomb, in Devanagiri: Hey Rama, can be rendered as "O! Lord Ram." These are thought to be the last words he uttered before passing away.
Gandhi was thus a essentially a seeker of truth. He was a multi-dimensional genius and it did not lend itself to an easy analysis. Gandhi was 'normal' in the truest sense of that term.
In the speech, Nehru compared Gandhi to an eternal beacon and predicted that a thousand years later, ”That light will be seen... the world will see it and it will give solace to innumerable hearts.
“Be the change you are trying to create.” “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.” “There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again,” he writes. Orwell also observed that the British saw Gandhi as useful. “Strictly speaking, as a Nationalist, he was an enemy,” Orwell wrote.
Gandhi therefore felt a need of the comparative study of religions to pave the way for unity and brotherhood amongst the followers of different religions. Mahatma Gandhi was a Sanatani Hindu. His love for Hinduism was not blind love. Gandhi spoke about the lofty ideals preached by Hinduism.
Einstein and Oppenheimer disagreed on a key issue: the government. Einstein wasn't invited to join the Manhattan Project, partially because of his socialist leanings, but it's possible he wouldn't have accepted such an invitation anyway. The scientist was a staunch pacifist.
"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu [a principal Hindu deity] is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds'.
