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It has become fashionable for modern scholars and politicians to interpret Bhagavad Gita.

  It has become fashionable for modern scholars and politicians to interpret Bhagavad Gita. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, personally appeared and left His instructions for the benefit of all human society, but fools and rascals unfortunately think of Him as an ordinary human being and twist the instructions of Bhagavad-gītā for the satisfaction of their senses. Practically everyone commenting on Bhagavad-gītā interprets it for sense gratification. It has become especially fashionable for modern scholars and politicians to interpret Bhagavad-gītā as if it were something fictitious, and by their wrong interpretations they are spoiling their own careers and the careers of others. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, however, is fighting against this principle of regarding Kṛṣṇa as a fictitious person and of accepting that there was no Battle of Kurukṣetra, that everything is symbolic, and that nothing in Bhagavad-gītā is true. In any case, if one truly wants to be successful...

What is aksauhini?

The word  akṣauhiṇī  refers to a military phalanx consisting of 21,870 chariots and elephants, 109,350 infantry soldiers and 65,610 horses. An exact description is given in the  Mahābhārata, Ādi parva,  Second Chapter, as follows: eko ratho gajaś caikaḥ narāḥ pañca padātayaḥ trayaś ca turagās taj-jñaiḥ pattir ity abhidhīyate pattiṁ tu triguṇām etāṁ viduḥ senāmukhaṁ budhāḥ trīṇi senāmukhāny eko gulma ity adhidhīyate trayo gulmā gaṇo nāma vāhinī tu gaṇās trayaḥ śrutās tisras tu vāhinyaḥ pṛtaneti vicakṣaṇaiḥ camūs tu pṛtanās tisraś caṁvas tisras tv anīkinī anīkinīṁ daśa-guṇām āhur akṣauhiṇīṁ budhāḥ akṣauhiṇyas tu saṅkhyātā rathānāṁ dvija-sattamāḥ saṅkhyā-gaṇita-tattvajñaiḥ sahasrāṇy eka-viṁśati śatāny upari cāṣṭau ca bhūyas tathā ca saptatiḥ gajānāṁ tu parīmāṇaṁ tāvad evātra nirdiśet jñeyaṁ śata-sahasraṁ tu sahasrāṇi tathā nava narāṇām adhi pañcāśac chatāni trīṇi cānaghāḥ pañca-ṣaṣṭi-sahasrāṇi tathāśvānāṁ śatāni ca daśottarāṇi ṣaṭ cāhur yathāvad abhisaṅkhyayā etām akṣau...