Krishna from the Gita, or Krishna from TV? || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00There are so many TV serials. Are they talking of the Gita? No.

00:03They are showing how He made love with all the milkmaids, wooing them,

00:07frolicking with them. That's what the TV serials are showing, right?

00:10Or are they educating you in the principles of Gita, the philosophy of Vedanta?

00:15Gita is one of the pillars of Vedanta, by the way.

00:17What they are showing you?

00:19The peacocks, the cows, the birds, the girls.

00:22And the girls are there in the pond and Krishna does away with their clothes.

00:26And for five hours, the TV producer is just lengthening and lengthening and

00:31dragging the whole thing on. Which particular cloth? Which girl?

00:34What is she saying?

00:35All my life, I've been inviting people to the Gita, teaching Gita,

00:40speaking for hours on every single shloka of the Gita.

00:44And not too many people have been interested.

00:46Why?

00:46We know the story, Makhan Chor.

00:48What else is there to know?