This is very true. I only read some of this material because I took a group of students to India once to study the health care system. It was so eye-opening to see a non-western religious tradition. More to the point, to realize the ancient and vast collection of thinking abound the nature of the universe of which so few in the west are aware. Of course, I also learned that the sentence from the Bhagavad Gita that Oppenheimer quoted as "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" is actually (or at least typically) translated as "I am Time, the destroyer of worlds." This certainly made more sense to me.