Lord Krishna had milk. Who are you to stop us? || Acharya Prashant, Conversation (2022)

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00:00 A lot of people will make excuses for the ones that do know there is cruelty in milk,

00:08 but they'll say Lord Krishna had it or its traditions.

00:11 Please you have to understand, Lord Krishna consuming milk in his childhood, in his childhood,

00:18 only in his childhood.

00:21 Do you hear or read of him consuming milk after he was grown up?

00:25 First question.

00:26 Second thing, when you have an avatar, that avatar is constrained by the limits and conditions

00:42 and conventions of his time and age.

00:48 So he was born in, not really born, brought up in a clan of cow keepers, cattle rearers.

01:02 That was the profession that entire neighborhood was following, right?

01:10 And Balakrishna is just a little baby.

01:13 He will do what the entire surrounding is doing and he will wear what everybody else

01:19 is wearing.

01:22 So saying that little Krishna used to drink milk is just like saying that little Krishna

01:32 used to wear the costumes of his time.

01:37 Just as he is bound to wear the costumes of his time, similarly as long as he is little,

01:44 he is bound to follow the customs of his time.

01:48 We are talking about avatar.

01:50 We are not talking about Atma or Brahm or Satya here and all the avatars are definitely

01:59 limited by the conditions of their time.

02:04 It is believed that you take birth, sambhavami yuge yuge, you take birth in a particular

02:13 milieu and if you are taking birth in a particular milieu, of course you don't expect Krishna

02:18 to walk around in western formals.

02:21 He will wear what they did, his parents and relatives and the entire area and he will

02:27 speak the language that they spoke.

02:30 Just as he would speak the language as was spoken by the people of his time, similarly

02:37 as long as he is young, he will follow the customs of the people of his time because

02:45 the avatar is not supposed to be perfect in the first place.

02:50 The avatar is not purna satya.

02:55 The avatar is not even supposed to be the perfect truth.

03:00 Since the avatar is embodied, the avatar has come to be born, so he is supposed to have

03:08 the bearings, attributes, characteristics of his particular time and age.

03:14 That is the reason, now does he play the violin?

03:19 He plays the flute.

03:21 Why the flute and why not the violin?

03:25 Does he speak French?

03:27 He speaks the language of that place and time.

03:29 Now why doesn't he speak French?

03:32 Because he was born at a place where there was no French.

03:36 He was born at a place where there was no violin.

03:40 If an avatar today takes birth in France, he will probably play the piano and speak

03:50 French.

03:51 So these are time bound attributes.

03:55 These are not to be taken as timeless.

03:57 These depend on the time in which the avatar was born.

04:02 That is the reason why different avatars show different characteristics.

04:06 Now truth is one, then why are the characteristics of the different avatars so much at variance

04:12 with each other?

04:13 Somebody is very composed, somebody talks in one way, somebody wears one kind of attire,

04:18 somebody is carrying around in another way.

04:22 Why are such variations seen?

04:25 Because those are the variations of the time and place of their birth, Desh-Kaal.

04:32 They are not variations in the truth.

04:35 Now what depended on a certain time and place must be left to that time and place.

04:42 What is it that must be carried forward?

04:45 That which is timeless.

04:47 Eating habits, sartorial habits, linguistic preferences, where do all these come from?

04:57 They come from that geography and that age.

05:02 And geography and age are not timeless.

05:07 They are limited.

05:09 Such habits, such characteristics belong only to that period and must not be carried forward

05:16 to the coming centuries.

05:18 What is it then that must be carried forward to the coming centuries up to time eternity?

05:26 The Bhagavad Gita.

05:28 Because in that you have something which time can never bismayor or blemish.

05:37 [Music]

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