Krishna’s Teachings or Stories? || 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.

00:19It is such a tragedy, so 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, hardly 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.

00:49The great philosophical jewels,

00:52the foreigners accepted them, respected them,

00:55learned them and taught them.