You look in the mirror, and if there is a speck or blemish on your face, you want to change something. If you look at the Gita and that doesn't result in changes in your life, then you are misusing it. Anybody who holds the Gita must be ready to look within and discard all that which is unnecessary, borrowed, antithetical to life. If that is not happening, then that's disrespect to the Gita.
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Ankit Tyagi: In your book, you say, “the Gita does not talk of an ancient war — it talks of the war right now. "Do you also see how difficult it will be for you to remain with the Gita and Shri Krishna, if you have a particular attitude towards women, or towards caste, or something else?"
Acharya Prashant: Definitely.
Ankit Tyagi: I just want to ask you — a lot of people would claim, "Main to Gita padhta hun roj and “I am a Hindu,” and so on and so forth — “I identify myself with this and that.” Can people claim or hold the Gita in their hand and still have prejudice against women or anybody or any caste or creed?
Acharya Prashant: No way. If a thousand people claim to have read the Gita, or understood the Gita, or to be following the Gita, I would be surprised if even one of them is deserving of going beyond Chapter one. Because chapter one is where we are all stuck.
