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If you read simply Mahabharata, which is meant for the sudras and the woman class and the less-intelligent persons born in higher class society, you will find in Mahabharata so sublime literature

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If you read simply Mahābhārata, which is meant for the śūdras and the woman class and the less-intelligent persons born in higher class society, you will find in Mahābhārata so sublime literature. You will find sociology, history, religion, culture—everything. But this was meant for the less-intelligent class. Now how much we have been degraded that we cannot understand even Mahābhārata. And in the Mahābhārata is the Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā is the portion of Mahābhārata. And such Bhagavad-gītā is being studied by many great scholars and philosophers at the present moment—still they cannot understand.

If you read simply Mahābhārata, which is meant for the śūdras and the woman class and the less-intelligent persons born in higher class society, you will find in Mahābhārata so sublime literature. You will find sociology, history, religion, culture—everything. But this was meant for the less-intelligent class. Now how much we have been degraded that we cannot understand even Mahābhārata. And in the Mahābhārata is the Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā is the portion of Mahābhārata. And such Bhagavad-gītā is being studied by many great scholars and philosophers at the present moment—still they cannot understand.

Try to understand: Which was made for the less-intelligent class of men, now it is very difficult to understand. So what class of men we are? That is my point. Strī-śūdra-dvijabandhūnāṁ. The Mahābhārata was meant for less-intelligent class of men and women, and now at the present moment we cannot even understand Mahābhārata. Then what less-intelligent class of men we are? Try to understand. Or what intelligent class of men were there. That is to be understood.

Page Title:If you read simply Mahabharata, which is meant for the sudras and the woman class and the less-intelligent persons born in higher class society, you will find in Mahabharata so sublime literature
Compiler:Soham
Created:2024-01-16, 15:26:54.000
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