'Miracles are my visiting cards', says Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Many scientists received his visiting cards. Dr Bhagavantham was one such scientist.

Dr S Bhagavantham was the Director of All India Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also later held the prominent position of Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence in New Delhi.

In 1959, he went for a walk with Sri Sathya Sai Baba on the sands of the Chitravathi river in Puttaparthi. Baba asked him to select a place for sitting down. Bhagavantham selected a place. During the course of the discussion, Bhagavantham told Baba that Oppenheimer, after exploding the atom bomb, quoted the version of Bhagavat Gita to express his reaction. Immediately Baba asked Bhagavantham,