• 8 months ago
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00:00 No Indian wants to know anything more about Krishna. We already know Krishna.
00:05 Every single person knows five or ten stories about Krishna and that is all. Why do you need to read the Gita?
00:12 Why do you need to understand Vedanta?
00:14 We know those five stories. One, how he was stealing butter. Two, how he was dancing with the Gopis.
00:19 Third, the mountain on the little finger. Fourth, the great snake in the Jamuna River.
00:24 Done. Then Sudama. Five stories you know and you are fully confident you know Krishna.
00:29 And beyond that nobody needs to know anything. All my life I have been
00:33 inviting people to the Gita, teaching Gita,
00:36 speaking for hours on every single shloka of the Gita and not too many people have been interested.
00:44 Why? We know the story, Makhan Chor. What else is there to know?
00:47 Advaita Vedanta, it is greatly respected abroad. Bhagavad Gita, it is understood and read abroad.
00:54 You have university courses on the Gita. Hardly in India.