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<div class="heading">Our only request is that if you want happiness, if you want to prosper, make your life successful, you must read Bhagavad-gītā thoroughly, as it is, as Kṛṣṇa says. Don't try to misinterpret. "Kṛṣṇa means this" and "pāṇḍava means this" and "This means this." Don't make this foolish rascaldom. Take as it is, Bhagavad-gītā.
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How to read? ''Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]), through the disciplic succession. As Kṛṣṇa said, you have to accept that teaching through the disciplic succession, not concocted meanings, "Oh, I am a very good scholar. I passed my D.H.C. or M.A.C. or M.A. I can comment on ''Bhagavad-gītā'' in my own way." That is rascaldom. That is not understanding of ''Bhagavad-gītā''. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' means you must understand what Kṛṣṇa says. That is understanding. But generally it is done, "Kill Kṛṣṇa. There was no Kṛṣṇa. There was no battlefield. There was no ''Mahābhārata''. I have my concoction about Kṛṣṇa." This kind of commentary and understanding of ''Bhagavad-gītā'' has spoiled the whole world.

Therefore in the Western countries so many ''svāmīs'' and ''yogīs'' went there and they misrepresented ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Of course, everyone knows in Western country ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Every institution, every gentleman, learned man, knows that there is a nice book, ''Bhagavad-gītā'', but they read these faulty commentaries. They cannot understand. Now we are presenting ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is, and they are now understanding what is real ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Therefore they are now devotees. For the last two hundred years, so many ''svāmīs'' and ''yogīs'' went there and talked about ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Not a single person became a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Now you will find thousands. Why? The ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is being accepted as it is. This is the secret of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

So our only request is that if you want happiness, if you want to prosper, make your life successful, you must read ''Bhagavad-gītā'' thoroughly, as it is, as Kṛṣṇa says. Don't try to misinterpret, "Kṛṣṇa means this," and "''Pāṇḍava'' means this," and "This means this." Don't make this foolish rascaldom. Take as it is, ''Bhagavad-gītā''.</p>
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