How can the Gita’s spiritual knowledge be compared to nuclear weapons knowledge?

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How is the comparison of, say, confidential knowledge to nuclear power? I am not talking about nuclear power, I am talking about the knowledge of nuclear power.
That, say, the knowledge to manufacture nuclear weapons. The world leaders don’t want it to be available to everyone. There are various kinds of treaties which are made, nuclear non-proliferation treaty and all that, by which that knowledge should not fall in the hands of some intemperate people.
So, I was talking not so much comparing the nuclear power of the knowledge, I am talking about the principle of certain forms of knowledge being restricted based on responsibility or maturity of people. So, similarly, spiritual knowledge, just like we have the principle to not instruct faithless people in the glories of the holiness. Now, even in the zazana pastime, we have to be a little careful.
If people have very little faith in God, people are very skeptical about the whole concept of bhakti and that time we tell them to chant the holy name, all sinful reactions will go away. If people not only not believe it, they will think it is very weird. So, we have to instruct people according to their adhikar.
Like there is a very great devotee, that devotee can create adhikar for people. Because by the devotee, by the one’s purity, by one’s potency, the devotee attracts faith and then whatever the devotee says, people can have faith in that devotee also, in that teaching also gradually. But in general, unless the very exalted devotee is present, to speak confidential principles of dharma is not very appropriate.
So, even Prabhupada, he preached all over the world, but he did not get into too much technicalities of Radha Krishna bhakti or esoteric aspects of even Gaudiya Vaishnavism. He spoke what people needed to hear. So, we have to, so guhya means that people have to give knowledge according to their level of maturity because acquiring knowledge is a responsibility.
And that knowledge, that responsibility, only people who are mature enough can take it. Is it clear? Any other questions?