There is no revolution possible without the Gita. That’s the reason why even those who are not remembered particularly for their spiritual inclination, people like Subhash Chandra Bose, even they founded their core on Gita. What kind of revolution can you do if it’s the body that’s always at the top of your mind? You require a Gita to tell you that this body is perishable and would anyway go. Gita only teaches you, "Endure and fight."
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Questioner: Pranāma, Acharya Ji. I am an alumnus of this college (DTU), currently studying at IIT-Delhi. So, today is Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti and as we know, at the young age of fifteen, he read the biography of Swami Vivekananda, and subsequently, he read the teachings of Ramakrishna Paramhans and the Upanishads. And this part of his life is not known mostly.
Apart from being a revolutionary, we also know that Bhagavad Gita's teachings were inspirational for him and had a special impact on his life. So, my question is, how the youth of today can be brought closer to the scriptures so that we can have more revolutionaries like him with a deeper understanding of life?
Acharya Prashant: See, there is no revolution possible without the Gita. We have a lot of self-declared, self-appointed micro rebels these days.
Everybody wants to be seen as a firebrand rebel in his own right. But there is no revolution possible without the Gita. And when I say Gita, I do not mean a particular book or a particular scripture. By Gita, I mean a particular class of wisdom literature. So, to me, the Upanishads are Gita.
