Acharya Prashant: You will see that I'm repeatedly stressing on Shri Krishna as the demolisher, on Shri Krishna as someone who not only does not accept our prevalent definitions of right-wrong, true and false, humility, authority, right action, non-violence but, in fact, unabashedly and actively demolishes them. It is one thing to come up with a realized version of the same old stuff, and it is totally another thing to come up with something that is totally fresh, original, and unprecedented. That's what Shri Krishna is.
When Shri Krishna deviates from the established definition and concept of something, it is not a minor deviation, it is not an incremental change, it is not a little bit of correction — it is a total explosion. We cannot even say that it is a 180-degree turn. We cannot even say that Shri Krishna speaks the opposite of what we have usually heard. Because even if we say that Shri Krishna stands totally against our concepts, we are still somehow relating Shri Krishna to our own stand; we are still saying that Shri Krishna is giving us another concept which is opposed to our concept, and thereby related to our concept.
So, it's neither a minor deviation nor a major deviation, and not even a total deviation. It is a dimensionally different space into which Shri Krishna takes us. I repeat, it's a dimensionally different space into which Shri Krishna takes us.
So, yesterday and the day before, we looked at a few Yoga verses. The clarity on Yoga that Shri Krishna is bringing to us cannot be had unless one is prepared to totally give up that definition which had been resting and established in our mind. If we do not give that up, we won't be able to go to the space, to the dimension Shri Krishna is calling us to. ‘Demolition’ is the word, not ‘deviation’. Demolition, not deviation; dissolution, not development.
