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A girl sitting with her friends in a bus responded to the offer of a Gita: "I have a Bhagavad-gita at home, I don’t need another one."

I asked whether she had Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

She arrogantly asked, "What does it matter? They're all the same."

I replied, "Well, all buses are the same, but you are sitting only on this bus."

She said that this is because she had to go to the place where this bus goes and the other buses, though they look like, don’t go there.

"Precisely!" I replied. "Similarly, the Gita As It Is indeed is as it is spoken by Krsna to Arjuna, without changing the speaker's intention."

She knew she was defeated and wanted to take a copy, but because of her false ego and being in the presence of her friends, she ignored me.

But when I went away, a friend of hers came running behind me, asking me: "Wait, wait! I need one, please."

Bhakta Harish