The Bhagavid Gita is not a religious book. It's a philosophical treatise. It is a book that is to be analyzed, contemplated and debated. It clarifies on the wa

The Bhagavid Gita is not a religious book. It's a philosophical treatise. It is a book that is to be analyzed, contemplated and debated. It clarifies on the way of the world, the duties of a human being, on how to decide what is right and wrong (or what is sin and not). Ultimately, it posits that what we suffer as humans, are essentially results of our own actions (karma). However these effects are not limited to the lifetime of the human form (because Gita posits that the human body is perishable, but the soul is non-perishable and carries forward the karmic effects). It puts the cause of human suffering on humans themselves and posits that to escape this never ending cycle of cause-reaction, detachment is the only way forward. Gita then explains what is detachment. How to be detached from our actions, thereby breaking the cycle of re-birth and ending our suffering. So, in the context of Oppenheimer, I speculate that his reading of Gita made him aware of his actions and the karmic effects of it on his soul. Background Note : Hinduism puts forth that this universe and our existence is not the outcome of some being / God. As, logically, speaking, if the universe came to be from the actions of some superior being, then it is implied that some higher being made this superior being, and the hierarchy goes on without end. Hinduism posits that this is absurd and that the universe is nothing but god. Every molecule, every atom, every soul is an expression of god.