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

Questioner (Q): Namaste, sir. A question always comes to my mind when I see Bhagavad Gita. It's a book that shows a way to live life, not a religious book, and many foreign institutes have Bhagavad Gita as a core source in their management courses. Then why this generation in India does not have much knowledge of Bhagavad Gita?

Acharya Prashant (AP): We are so far away from Krishna because the image of Krishna is just too close to us. Compared to us, foreigners find it easier to come to the essence of Krishna because they don't have images or stories about Krishna. No Indian wants to know anything more about Krishna, we already know Krishna! Every single person knows five or ten stories about Krishna and that is all, why do you need to read the Gita? Why do you need to understand Vedant?

We know those five stories: one, how he was stealing butter; two, how he was dancing with the gopis; third, the mountain on the little finger; fourth, the great snake in the Yamuna river; then five, Sudama. Five stories you know and you are fully confident you know Krishna and beyond that nobody needs to know anything. Every person walking on the road in India is ‘Aham Brahmasmi’, ‘I too am Brahm’, and he spits on the road. Says ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ and spits on the road. Why do we need to read the Upanishads then? I'm already Aham Brahmasmi.

Five stories from the Bhagavad Purāṇ, that's all! “Krishna! Obviously, Krishna! Yes, the one in the neighborhood, that mysterious boy, obviously I know of him.”