00:00You call Bhishma a big renunciate because he dropped not one but two very important things.
00:07We talk of Kanchan Kamini.
00:09We say these two things are very difficult to turn away.
00:17Power, the kind of power that comes with the golden throne and he bid goodbye to both.
00:25He said, I'll never take the throne though I am the rightful hire.
00:30And I'll never marry.
00:31We celebrate that.
00:33Is that not the definition event today?
00:36Someone who says I will never take the throne and someone who says I'll never touch the woman.
00:43You say, oh great, great, great, what great.
00:46On the other hand, there is Krishna.
00:48Any number of women loved him and he would respond.
00:52And if you look at the way he responded, he was still untouched.
00:55He never turned them away.
00:57He was all right with it.
00:58He sang, he danced, he enjoyed, he frolicked.
01:03In fact, had those stories been about an ascetic Krishna, that would not have really suited the Gita.
01:12In that sense, the stories are aligned with Gita.
01:16Because if the Gita's philosophy is to be lived, then you cannot have someone who detests or turns away women.
01:24No, that kind of person then cannot be the author of the Gita, cannot even be someone who understands the
01:32Gita.
01:32Gita and Krishna is a huge renunciate.
