Geeta no sister of Russia

India is up in arms – Russians are trying to ban ISKON’ version of Geeta translated into Russian. How can they do it…? after all we never blocked any red book or Stalin’s propagandas.

How can Russian federation decide what’s good for their citizens? and how can a law court (in Siberia) decide on the wordings of the god himself.

Russians need to know that when it comes to court judgment – it’s only the gods who get to hear the judgment – mere mortals (like Russian/Indian citizens) can just be litigants. It just not fair.

After all when Lalu Prasad Yadav asks government of India to convey our feelings – he has done that only after understanding the text in question. Lalu being an expert, both in Russian and Krishna himself (A Yadav is a Yaduvanshi) has every right to demand the case.

As for an average Hindu – who survived eons – who readily believed any other god – organically adding them to his list of 340 Million Hindu gods – and respectfully believes in the gods that want to retain their own entity- such an average Hindu is completely OK if orthodox church rejects their believes. In the end Geeta is a General’s sermon to a heart broken army – poised to attack a well dug in enemy, while the defenders vastly outnumbers the attackers.
If someone thinks that this is an extremist text which preaches readers to rebel against family for a greater cause – there is nothing wrong. Anywhere in the world such a preaching would be taken up as a surprise – s if a remote Siberian town takes it to be extremist – nothing wrong.

The greater question is our willingness to act like extremists while defending one of the greatest sermons of all times. Geeta sermon can win impossible wars itself, it doesn’t need our half-baked knowledge