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reciting generally taken of as one and half hour. I have come across one great gentleman who was able to do around 45 minutes, very sincerely, because he knew it thoroughly. But it used to take 11/2 hours for majority of the people.
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 viewpoints 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.
Really they were the very conditions which an abhyasi passes through during the course of his march. We will have occasion to talk about it now. The process brought Arjuna instantly to a higher state of spiritual consciousness and purged out the feeling of undue attachment from his heart. So far the only purpose Gita has served on that day for Arjuna was to get some vairagya. He was having undue attachment to so many people, brothers, sisters, uncles, grandfathers and fathers, gurus, children and