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Strength sans attachment, and the limits of the material || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagavad Gita(2020)
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Shrimad Bhagavad Gita
Shri Krishna
Dharma
Desire
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Brahm
Ishwar
Prakriti
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Acharya Prashant explains the nuances of Shri Krishna's teachings in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita regarding the nature of the divine and the quality of human desire. He addresses the apparent contradiction where Shri Krishna claims to be the essence of all things—such as the taste in water or the light in the sun—yet later states that while all things are in Him, He is not in them. Acharya Prashant clarifies this using the analogy of sunlight passing through tree leaves to create images of the sun on the ground; while these images represent the sun and are powered by it, they are not the sun itself. He explains that the infinite cannot be fully contained by the finite. This distinction establishes the difference between the manifest Lord and the absolute Truth, suggesting that while everything can be respected as a door to the divine, nothing finite should be mistaken for the ultimate Truth.