My family comes from a Hindu background. We have a book on Bhagavad Geeta at home, it has been there for several years. Many people in my immediate and distant family read this book regularly. Some of them have even memorized the sloaks and can recite them very well. One day, I opened the book for the first time. It had translations of Sanskrit sloks in English and Nepali language. When I read them, my mind was blown. There was so much wisdom in there.

But then I looked at people who recite these sloks everyday, and they didn’t seem as wise. I started to ask around. They would recite me the sloks of every chapter accurately, but had no idea what that slok meant. What the wisdom behind the slok was. Some of them had some idea, but never thought deeply about it. That made me sad.