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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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Gandhi, he wanted to prove, from Bhagavad-gītā, nonviolence. The Bhagavad-gītā is being preached in the battlefield, and it is completely violence. How he can prove? Therefore he is dragging the meaning out of his own con... It is very troublesome, and anyone who will read such interpretation, he is doomed. He is doomed because the Bhagavad-gītā is meant for awakening your Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If that is not awakened, then it is useless waste of time.
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[[Vanisource:670220 - Lecture CC Adi 07.109-114 - San Francisco|670220 - Lecture CC Adi 07.109-114 - San Francisco]]:
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So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is stressing that to read Vedic literature, ''Vedānta'', ''Upaniṣad''—these are principal literatures in the Vedic knowledge—then ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', all these books should be studied from the direct meaning. Don't try to interpret. According to ordinary, I mean to say, dealings, suppose in the law court there are two parties. Two lawyers are fighting on the principle of one clause or section in the law book. One is interpreting in a different way, one is interpreting in a different way, and the judges give their judgment. 

Now, the opportunity for interpretation is there when the meaning is not clear. A very good example is given by the grammarians, or Sanskrit scholar, that ''gaṅgayaṁ ghoṣapali'' that, "There is a neighborhood which is called Ghoṣapali on the Ganges." Now somebody may ask, "How there can be a quarter on the Ganges? Ganges is water." So there is interpretation required. So somebody says: " 'On the Ganges' means on the bank of the Ganges." That makes it clear. "On the Ganges" does not mean that in the middle water there is a, I mean to say, residential quarter. No. "On the Ganges" means on the bank of the Ganges.

So when there is such doubt, one can interpret. But when there is no doubt—everyone can understand clearly the meaning—there is no question of interpreting. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's stressing, that ''gauṇa-vṛttye yebā bhāṣya karila ācārya'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.109|CC Adi 7.109]]). Therefore each and every aphorism and verse of ''Vedānta-sūtra'' has been indirectly interpreted by the ''Śārīraka-bhāṣya''. Such interpretation, if somebody hears, then his future is doomed. 

Just like our Gandhi: he wanted to prove, from ''Bhagavad-gītā'', nonviolence. The ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is being preached in the battlefield, and it is completely violence. How he can prove? Therefore he is dragging the meaning out of his own con . . . it is very troublesome, and anyone who will read such interpretation, he is doomed. He is doomed because the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is meant for awakening your Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 

If that is not awakened, then it is useless waste of time. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced the ''brāhmaṇa'' who was illiterate but he took the essence of ''Bhagavad-gītā'', the relationship between the Lord and the devotee. Therefore, unless we take the real, I mean to say, essence of any literature, this is simply waste of time.
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