Devdutt Pattanaik

Krishna's Secret

Rito Ghosh

You should never read this book and anything else written by Devdutt Pattanaik. His writing and understanding of Dharma is very shallow and I am very doubtful even he ever read the full Mahabharata.

He uses soft, whatsapp forward style comparisons in his writing. And his writing is nothing new and more of the same.

Do not take his writings seriously. Not only his writing is bad, the things he preach is outrageously contradictory to Dharmic teachings and yet he claims that he is imparting Dharmic knowledge.

His understanding and preaching is even harmful at places and he preaches that nature is equally important of nurture. This could easily be interpreted as supremacy of birth in some castes over others. He uses and emphasizes on varna and jati which create divide between people and ideas are outdated. Why write a new book standing in 21st century which preaches the same wrong interpretations of Dharma preached centuries and millenias ago?

His knowledge is awfully short in matters of Bhishma.

I have studied Krishna's life and Mahabharata and scholarly books and articles written about them for a significant amount of time. And I can attest that Mr. Pattanaik's writing does not only oversimplifies esoteric concepts of Dharma, he dilutes them and is outrightly wrong in many places.

Don't read any of his books. He uses diluted, feel-good alliterations found in Whatsapp forwards. His writing promotes a backward thinking, diluted undrstanding of Krishna's life which is wrong and in contradiction with truth.

His writing is in contrast and conflict with what Dharma stands for, what Mahabharata taught us and what Krishna stood for.

Krishna's Secret

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