Bal Krishna || Acharya Prashant
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00:00Krishna, obviously Krishna. Yeah, yeah, the one in the neighborhood, that mischievous boy. Obviously, I know of him.
00:04Every single person knows five or ten stories about Krishna and that is all. Why do you need to read the Gita?
00:11Why do you need to understand Vedanta? All my life, I have been inviting people to the Gita, teaching Gita,
00:18speaking for hours on every single shloka of the Gita and not too many people have been interested.
00:25We know the story, Makhan Chor. What else is there to know?
00:29Compared to us,
00:31foreigners find it easier to come to the essence of Krishna because they don't have
00:38images or stories about Krishna. A lot of research on the Gita, a lot of scholarship on the Gita has
00:44actually come from abroad. Jharkhut, Tonatotka, all the trash you just enjoy.