Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
I've wanted to study Sanskrit for a while now but nobody around where I live can teach it.  So I've been nibbling at at occasionally.  Some points of pronunication are a bit vague such as there being two kinds of T's and D's which sound almost identical to me.  I've read the Gita and the Uphanishad s in English (Eaknath Easwaran's translation).  Here's my impression.  It's definitely worth reading through a translation.  You can read it not as philosophy or religion but simply to read it.  That's why I read it.  To climb the mountain of life a little bit higher to see more.  To see a tiny bit of what men like Oppenheimer, Ghandi, Thoreau and 1.3 billion others have been inspired.  I can now read most Devanagari characters, enough to recognize simple words when they appear to me in stores like "Dharma", "Karma" or "Tantra" etc. That said, I identify more closely with Judaism than anything else.  You need a place to call home.  Still, the Sanskrit language is fascinating and the Hindu scriptures have made a deep impression on me.