Introduction to the Bhagvad Gita || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Gita is like a circuit breaker. The Gita is an intruder. So are the Upanishads. So are the Vedant

00:05Sutras. If they are not there, we will happily continue to move about in our circuit of suffering

00:12without ever even realizing how badly we are trapped. The entire scripture of Bhagavad Gita,

00:19the entire domain of Vedanta is devoted to nothing but this one thing. How to placate

00:33that primordial tendency, that ancient animal within man. That ancient animal has started

00:42working on laptops and wearing modern clothes and speaking contemporary jargon. But it wants

00:50just the same things as animals in the jungle do, but in a far more powerful and destructive way.