Why Indians don't know Gita? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 A question always comes in my mind when I see Bhagavad Gita.

00:03 It's a book that shows a way to live life, not a dharmic book.

00:06 And many foreign institutes have Bhagavad Gita as a core source in their management courses.

00:11 Then why this generation in India do not have much knowledge of Bhagavad Gita?

00:16 Five stories from the Bhagavad Purana. That's all.

00:19 Krishna, obviously Krishna. Yeah, yeah, the one in the neighborhood.

00:22 That mischievous boy. Obviously, I know of him.

00:24 All my life, I've been inviting people to the Gita, teaching Gita,

00:29 speaking for hours on every single shloka of the Gita.

00:33 And not too many people have been interested. Why?

00:35 We know the story, Makhan Chor. What else is there to know?

00:38 What else is there to know? And there are so many TV serials.

00:41 Are they talking of the Gita? They are showing how he made love

00:44 with all the milkmaids, wooing them, frolicking with them.

00:48 That's what the TV serials are showing, right?

00:50 Or are they educating you in the principles of Gita, the philosophy of Vedanta?

00:55 Gita is one of the pillars of Vedanta, by the way.