• verity_kindleM
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      2 days ago

      I thought Vishnu was the creator, Kali was the destroyer. Or Kali is an aspect of Vishnu?

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

        I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu 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 am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

        Creative destruction, I suppose.