West took the Real Gem || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Let's check your Krishna Quotient || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00Foreigners find it easier to come to the essence of Krishna

00:05because they don't have images or stories about Krishna.

00:09A lot of research on the Gita, a lot of scholarship on the Gita

00:12has actually come from abroad.

00:14Indians, huh?

00:15Arjun, yeah, yeah.

00:16Arjun?

00:19It is such a tragedy,

00:21so unfortunate it is,

00:23that we have all the trash and the gems we had

00:26have been rather used by the foreigners.

00:29Advaita Vedanta, it is greatly respected abroad.

00:32Bhagavad Gita, it is understood and read abroad.

00:36You have university courses on the Gita.

00:38Hardly in India.

00:39They were wise enough to take the best out of your spiritual heritage

00:45and they took only the best that was there.

00:47All the trash was left for the Indians.