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Jai Sri Krishna

First of all nowhere in the text itself is there any restriction on it's
reading - except to say it should be taught to the public from behind a
screen.

According to your logic then Gita is also forbidden to read in the house
because it can either engender in the the mind of the reader a desire for
war or a complete lack of motivation to do anything!!!

Any text on vairagya should also not be read by householders lest they
abandon their families. Bhakti texts also can lead the reader to neglect
their families in favour of devotional practices!

Ramayana should not be read because it can lead to waging war on Srilanka as
in the case of Kulashekhara Alwar!!

I think your logic is flawed. Because every single text can influence the
mind of the reader to do devient things. So if we follow the superstitious
we will read nothing and follow custom like cattle!

Krishna says in the Gita the Knowledge is the Supreme Purifier, and that one
should take refuge in intellect (buddhau saranam aviccha!)

According to one's svabhava, bhumika and adhikara one should strive to
aquire knowledge from anyway and everywhere - a no bhadra kratavo yantu
visvatah - (Rig Veda). Not take refuge in spurious psychological theories
about ill-effects from reading a sacred text!

dasanudasan






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