Krishna has himself given the Vedas; then why does he tell us to go beyond the Vedas in the Gita 2.46?

From Kirankumar Pr

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so Krishna is only given the Vedas and then Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita go beyond the Vedas so why create the Vedas if Krishna wants Arjuna to go beyond the Vedas actually the Vedic system of spiritual advancement is multi-level so that it is catered to different people at different levels so if a father has two sons one of them is a brilliant boy who gets high marks he gets 80% in his exams the other is just a sluggard who gets 40% barely he passes so today both of them come back with their results and both of them have 60% so the father will tell to the 40% boy Shabash, I am proud of you and the same father will go to the 80% and when the 80% boy comes and says I have got 60% he will say Madmash, I am ashamed of you, what have you done so why the difference although both have got the same marks it depends on their level and their capacity so like that for people who have no faith in God the Vedic literature and those people who are largely materialistic and they don’t have not that they don’t have faith in God but God has no priority in their lives God is not their goal their goal is primarily materialistic for such people the Vedic literature elevate them by telling them that you live according to the principles of God and perform the activities that God has told you then you will get your material desires that is like raising them from 40% to 60% but 60% is not the goal it is not that the goal of the Vedic literature is not to become religious materialists not to make people into religious materialists it is to make them into pure spiritualists by which they can attain eternal life so that is like the 80% so when somebody is capable of 80% and somebody is capable of becoming a pure spiritualist for that person to be a religious materialist is to come down or to stay down so when Krishna is giving the Bhagavad Gita he is talking about elevating somebody from 60% to 80% that means for taking the person to the level of pure devotion, pure spirituality so from that perspective even coming to 60% is a degradation so that means in the Vedic culture there are two systems of elevation one is the gradual and the second is the rapid gradual is one comes to dharma, artha, kama and eventually option. The other is as Bhagavad Gita says dharma is not for artha, it is only for apavarga so especially in the Krishna consciousness movement Prabhupada has not given us Vedic culture he has given us the best of Vedic culture he has given us the highest level revelation of the Vedic culture and he has given us that highest revelation in a way by which we can rapidly go there he has given us the rapid path to the highest goal and that’s why when we see this, we sometimes feel that Krishna has created this self-contradictory sort of system but it is not a self-contradictory system it is a progressive system and Krishna is giving us the highest level in the Bhagavad Gita and Prabhupada is making that accessible to us now