In plain words
Vidyāprakāśānanda, speaking about it, upholding equality and the eternal, also explained the way in which divinity is to be spread.
Recitation only sanctifies time!
But first of all this gathering of sādhus must try to recognise how, in keeping with the times we live in, the Bhagavad Gītā is to be given to this world. Building on the Bhagavad Gītā, people take up preaching and teaching that rests only on the embodied ones, ‘Kṛṣṇa said’, ‘Arjuna said’; but only when they recognise that it is the truth on which all humanity rests, and set in it not embodied persons but the bond of the jīva and Īśvara, and preach it so in society, can the faith in God that the people have, little or much, grow to its full. What did Arjuna ask, what did Kṛṣṇa say? It is there plainly in the Gītā. Why then all our teaching and preaching? Is the book not enough for recitation? Does the supreme Principle come to us just because we recite?
Does all the darkness die, see, at the news of a lamp in the world? Does the poor man's poverty go when he hears of the power of wealth? Does the sick man's grave illness go when he hears of the glory of medicine?
Such is the fruit that recitation brings! To recite is only to sanctify time! Ānanda comes into experience only when this is practised, so as to experience the supreme Principle and become one with the Paramātma. The Bhagavad Gītā is only a road! Can we reach a village by sitting on the road and repeating, “This is the road to that village, this is it”? However many times we call to mind the feast of delicacies and sweet pāyasam in the dish, our stomach is not filled.