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If you love Krishna, why avoid/distort the Gita? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)
Acharya Prashant
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Bhagavad Gita
Truth Realization
Ego
Personhood
Brahman
Devotion
Vedanta
Suffering
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that Brahman is not synonymous with the common concept of God. He states that the objective of spirituality is truth realization, which requires the dissolution of the ego, unlike God attainment which presupposes an egoistic self. He emphasizes that for those who regard Shri Krishna as the ultimate, the Bhagavad Gita must be the central scripture, as it contains his direct words. He argues that without understanding the Bhagavad Gita, one will likely misinterpret the stories found in the Puranas.