How BHAGAVAD GITA Inspired The FATHER of ATOMIC BOMB Robert Oppenheimer
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
00:28 [SPEAKING HINDI]
00:31 [SPEAKING HINDI]
00:51 American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer,
00:54 none other than the father of atomic bomb.
00:56 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:01 And more importantly, [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:07 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:08 Julius Robert Oppenheimer [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:13 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:19 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:22 he completed his studies of 3rd and 4th in a year.
01:27 He even completed his 8th in half a year.
01:31 He was selected as a lecturer in a mineralogy club in New York when he was 12.
01:36 After becoming a lecturer, he was able to read books all day long.
01:40 In the mornings and evenings, he read books and had a deep knowledge.
01:44 Another reason behind this was that he didn't have many friends.
01:48 In fact, other kids used to bully him.
01:51 Well, you see, when he was a kid, he used to keep his hair long.
01:55 His way of talking was quite different from other boys.
01:58 And he was so sensitive that either he would feel shy about a small thing
02:03 or if someone said something bad to him, he would immediately cry.
02:08 And because of his sensitive behavior, his classmates used to call him cutie and bully him.
02:14 Now, maybe this may sound ordinary to you.
02:17 You know, like every kid is teased at some point in life.
02:20 This was a very painful experience.
02:23 And because of these things, it was difficult for him to go to school.
02:27 Now, all the limits of this torture were crossed when at the age of 14,
02:31 during a summer camp, Robert's friends took out all his clothes,
02:34 painted their private parts green and locked them in the freezing cold of the ice house for the whole night.
02:41 Now, in such a situation, any ordinary person would leave the camp the next day out of shame and go home.
02:47 But Robert was not one of them.
02:49 Instead of complaining to the police, when he sent a letter to his home,
02:54 he wrote that he was very happy here and his classmates were teaching him a new lesson about life.
03:02 Just imagine how mature that guy was at such a young age.
03:06 He had read somewhere that we must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
03:11 And something like this happened.
03:13 After these incidents, his life journey took such a turn that he never stopped.
03:18 In September 1922, Robert started his studies at Harvard University.
03:23 And in the next three years, he completed many courses like philosophy, French, literature, English,
03:27 introductory calculus, chemistry, history and physics.
03:32 But after learning so much, he felt that something was missing.
03:37 And whatever he had studied was still incomplete somewhere.
03:40 And to complete this incompleteness, he took admission at the world-renowned Cambridge University.
03:48 After admission, he went straight to the father of nuclear physics and chemistry, Sir Ernest Rutherford.
03:56 But seeing Robert's incapabilities in physics, he rejected Robert.
04:02 And so, despite not wanting to, Robert had to work with J.J. Thomson.
04:07 He was not happy there at all.
04:08 And how would he be?
04:10 Because his job at J.J. Thomson's laboratory was to continuously observe the thin film of beryllium for electron study.
04:17 But his main interest was to study the position of electrons,
04:21 not to observe the waves and events that were occurring because of them.
04:25 But still, Robert did his job well and in the end,
04:28 understanding the electron waves, he also started to have an interest in quantum mechanics.
04:33 And in the same way, with the help of his versatile nature, he contributed in many other fields.
04:38 Now how did he do this?
04:39 Well, because he always did what he was supposed to do.
04:42 Although he was not perfect, he always focused on what he was asked to do.
04:46 And if we see this in Bhagwat Gita,
04:49 then chapter 18, verse 47 says,
04:51 श्रेयान् स्वधर्मो विगुन्ना परधर्मस्वानुष्ठितात् स्वभावा।
04:56 नियतां कर्म कुर्वन् नापनोति किभी शाम अर्थात।
05:00 It means, "It is better to do one's own dharma, even though imperfectly,
05:04 than to do another's dharma, even though perfectly."
05:07 By doing one's innate duties, a person does not incur sin.
05:10 And because of this, when Robert Oppenheimer came around black holes,
05:14 and when he started studying it, Einstein's relativity theory was rejected again and again.
05:19 But by using it, he proved that black holes exist in the universe.
05:24 So with this, friends, I can say that Bhagwat Gita had a very good impact on Robert.
05:29 And Bhagwat Gita also teaches us many other important things of life,
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06:15 For example, he also started studying black holes.
06:18 In fact, Einstein's general relativity theory, which was rejected many times,
06:22 he used that theory and proved that black holes exist in the universe.
06:27 And this research of his gave a new perspective to all scientists to see the universe.
06:32 Now, seeing the success at such a young age, everyone thought that things were going well.
06:38 But, as we all know, it often happens that the good things that look good from above,
06:43 are actually something else.
06:45 Something similar started happening here too.
06:47 Childhood trauma, rejection from the greatest physicist,
06:51 and not being able to do the work you want,
06:53 all these things started affecting Robert mentally.
06:57 In fact, it was even seen in Robert's professional life.
07:01 One day, when he was taking a lecture,
07:03 he suddenly left the lecture and started staring at the blackboard.
07:08 And he was repeating the same thing over and over again.
07:11 The point is,
07:12 the point is,
07:14 the point is,
07:15 the point is.
07:16 But everyone present there ignored his behavior,
07:21 but gradually his mental balance deteriorated so much
07:24 that he even tried to kill his friend.
07:27 In fact, his close friend Ferguson observed that
07:30 whenever Robert was told anything,
07:32 he would either become very sad or aggressive.
07:35 And so Ferguson thought that why not give him some good news.
07:39 Maybe he would be happy to hear this news.
07:41 And so Ferguson said that he was going to marry his girlfriend.
07:47 Now, instead of being happy to hear this,
07:49 Robert strangled Ferguson.
07:51 Now, at that time, Ferguson somehow saved his life,
07:55 but he understood that something definitely bad was happening to Robert.
08:00 And that's why he never left his friend.
08:04 After some time, it was found out that
08:06 the main reason behind Robert's impulsive and unpredictable behavior was
08:10 dementia praecox.
08:12 In fact, this is a mental illness in which a person always feels
08:16 that the people around him are his enemies
08:19 and can attack them at any time.
08:21 So basically, the patient feels very insecure.
08:24 But even after this condition,
08:27 you can imagine how scared he was.
08:29 Still, he did not let this affect his work.
08:33 In fact, he worked with great scientists like Heisenberg, Eugene Wigner,
08:36 Wolfgang Pauli and Enrico Fermi in depression.
08:40 And he was working.
08:42 In fact, during this time, he achieved one of the biggest achievements,
08:45 which was his Oppenheimer-Philips process.
08:48 Basically, in this process,
08:49 deutrons are bombarded on the nucleus of targeted atoms.
08:53 And as soon as these deutrons enter the nucleus of the atom,
08:56 they eject the proton in the nucleus out
08:59 and the target nucleus turns into a heavier isotope.
09:03 This discovery of Robert made a very important contribution
09:06 in the field of nuclear physics.
09:08 But eventually, Robert found all these things quite easy.
09:12 And he was getting bored of all this.
09:15 And so, to entertain himself, he thought
09:18 that why not teach the opposite of science.
09:21 And so, he entered the world of mystical and cryptic things.
09:26 Then he saw that the most wide and deep mythology is Hindu mythology.
09:31 And so, to understand the Hindu text,
09:33 in 1933, he started learning Sanskrit in Berkeley.
09:37 During that time, his Sanskrit professor and Indologist Arthur W. Ryder
09:42 advised Robert to read Bhagavad Gita.
09:44 And this advice gave Robert a new identity in the coming days.
09:48 Robert was getting success in the nuclear field and seeing his new personality,
09:52 Lieutenant General Leslie Groves specially chose Robert to lead the Manhattan Project of World War II.
09:59 Groves knew that Robert was very passionate and ambitious about his work.
10:03 And Robert also trusted General Groves.
10:06 Oppenheimer made a bomb with the help of his skills and intelligence
10:11 that could have killed three cities like Mumbai in a snap of a finger.
10:16 Keeping this success in mind, he was named the father of atomic bomb.
10:22 And also the inventor who changed the world.
10:25 Now the bomb was ready, it was time for its testing.
10:29 16th July 1945, New Mexico, USA, 5.45 am.
10:34 The world's first atomic bomb was tested.
10:36 This explosion was so huge that it had a mushroom cloud 11 km high,
10:40 which was as long as the eight Burj Khalifa.
10:45 21 kt TNT energy was released from it.
10:48 It was the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one.
10:53 Seeing this whole scene, Oppenheimer remembered a shloka from Bhagavad Gita.
10:57 दिवि सूर्य सहस्रस्या भावेद युगपाद उठी तल यादि भसद्रिशी ससी अधभासास तस्यमहत्मना
11:04 It means that if a thousand suns burst in the sky at the same time,
11:08 then the light that is seen is the same light that is seen in the form of Lord Vishnu.
11:13 Now the testing was successful, it was time to use it in the war.
11:18 On 6th August 1945, an atomic bomb named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima.
11:25 And three days later, on 9th August, another bomb named Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.
11:31 This attack killed millions of people and the destruction caused by it ended World War II.
11:38 Seeing this scene of destruction, Robert remembered another shloka from Bhagavad Gita.
11:43 कालोष्मी लोकक्षयाय अक्रत् प्रवृत्धो लोकन्शामा हर्तुमीह प्रवृत्धा
11:48 Translated as this.
11:50 Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
11:54 But people misunderstood his shloka.
11:58 They thought Robert was talking about himself.
12:01 But the truth was something else, which was revealed to everyone in an interview given by him many years later.
12:07 In that interview, he openly said that the US government had put forward the idea of making a hydrogen bomb in front of Oppenheimer.
12:14 But keeping in mind the loss caused by the hydrogen bomb, he clearly refused to make a hydrogen bomb.
12:21 But when the US government told him that if he did nothing, the Japanese would attack him.
12:27 Hearing this line, he remembered that shloka from Bhagavad Gita, in which Arjun had refused to fight against his own brothers in Kurukshetra.
12:37 Krishna had told him that even if he did not want to fight, he would have to fight this war.
12:43 Because that is his real religion.
12:45 And who and when to kill in the world is entirely in the hands of God, not in the hands of Arjun.
12:51 And even if Arjun did not do this, he would kill him himself.
12:56 Because if Lord Vishnu can give birth to the world, then he can also kill it.
13:00 Lord Vishnu says,
13:02 Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
13:06 He is still regretting that many innocent people have been killed by him.
13:11 But is it fair to regret?
13:13 Because the atom bombs he made had stopped World War II.
13:18 If Robert Oppenheimer had not made the atomic bomb,
13:21 it is also possible that in World War II, many more people would have died and there would have been a lot of destruction.
13:28 Now friends, Robert Oppenheimer's role in the creation of the nuclear bomb was very crucial.
13:33 If you were in his place, what would you do? Would you have fulfilled your duty?
13:37 Or would you have refused to fulfill your duty and said that this is against humanity?
13:43 Well, there are two ideas that can also conflict each other.
13:48 So if you were in his place, what would you have done? Tell us in the comments below.
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