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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 2
How could that be possible at that critical moment? Evidently he could have taken more than a few minutes for it. This is of course one of the commonest criticisms against Gita. I don’t have to say that this is something new. But then he comes down with a different answer. He doesn’t say all these things to prove that Gita was a false thing like Christian missionaries who will ask me to believe, or some Sanskrit scholars who will say, that this has been interpolated later into the Bharata, into the parva. This is how these are all the various view points taking into consideration this point, that it will take a long time. That approach is different, the answer is different here.
The fact is that Lord Krishna actually transmitted to Arjuna within a few minutes all those mental states necessary for the purpose at the time. Here again, for the purpose at the time is the transmission. Not the Ultimate, as the bashyakaras would ask me to believe.
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