History YMMV / BhagavadGita

* CommonKnowledge: The quote "now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" is often interpreted by laypeople as a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment thanks to it becoming publicized by an interview with UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, who described how he thought about the passage while witnessing the ''Trinity'' atomic bomb test. Oppenheimer's ThousandYardStare in the documentary and the palpable regret in his voice led to people attributing those emotions to the line itself, when in actuality the quote, per Oppenheimer's own account in the same interview, is meant to be part of Krishna's attempts to help Arjuna accept the fact that he has to go to war.[[note]]Likewise, Oppenheimer's own mental invocation of the quote was meant to say that he was metaphorically severing a limb to save the patient, as the Manhattan Project's failure would've led to an even deadlier ground invasion against Japan.[[/note]]

** The typical person in India however is exposed to the Gita through the "Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge" [[labelnote: Translation]] I am reborn in every epoch [[/labelnote]] phrase recited during the opening credits of [[Series/{{Mahabharata}} B R Chopra’s television adaptation]].

** "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A liberally-translated quotation from Krishna that UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer brought up while describing his and his coworkers' mortified reactions to the first successful detonation of an atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project. Decades after the interview, Oppenheimer's version of the quote became a popular source of parody online, being used in image macros that attached the quote to tongue-in-cheek images of characters who try to look intimidating but instead look silly.[[/labelnote]]
** The typical person in India however is exposed to the Gita through the "Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge" [[labelnote: Translation]] I am reborn in every epoch [[/labelnote]] phrase recited during the opening credits of [[Series/{{Mahabharata}} B R Chopra’s television adaptation]].

* MemeticMutation: Chances are most people's first exposure to the ''Bhagavad Gita'' was through Oppenheimer's "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." quote.
** The typical person in India however is exposed to the Gita through the “Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge” [[labelnote: Translation]] I am reborn in every epoch [[/labelnote]] phrase recited during the opening credits of [[Series/{{Mahabharata}} B R Chopra’s television adaptation]].

** The typical person in India however is exposed to the Gita through the “Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge” [[note: Translation]] I am reborn in every epoch [[/note]] phrase recited during the opening credits of [[Series/{{Mahabharata}} B R Chopra’s television adaptation]].

* MemeticMutation: Chances are most people's first exposure to the ''Bhagavad Gita'' was through Oppenheimer's "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." quote.

* MemeticMutation: Chances are most people's first exposure to the ''Bhagavad Gita'' was through Oppenheimer's "Now I am become Death" quote.

* {{Applicability}}: The war has been interpreted as a battle between good and evil within the heart of man, most famously by Gandhi.