Prithviraaj Shetty, Founder & CEO, Bhagavad Gita for All in a candid conversation with Farvi Wadhwa on how AI can be utilized for good.

The Bhagavad Gita is not hard to understand because it is complex. The verses are short. Good translations have existed for over a century. The difficulty is somewhere else. It sits in the gap between reading the verse and using it.

What actually makes ancient texts feel inaccessible is not the language. It is the missing context, the application gap, and the fact that the same verse means different things at 25 and at 45. A founder reading 2.47 on detachment from outcomes can intellectually grasp it in a minute. Living it through a bad funding round is a different exercise entirely.

This is where AI changes the equation. Not by simplifying the Gita, which would dilute it, but by removing the friction around it. The right system can map any verse to the moment you are actually in. A breakup. A career decision. A father you cannot talk to. A child you cannot reach. Five thousand years of philosophy becomes searchable not by chapter, but by life situation.

We built MyKrishna with this idea. The Gita mapped to over 2,500 real life situations, available the moment someone needs it, in their language. Over a million people use it. They are not coming for the abstract philosophy. They are coming at 2 a.m., in the middle of something hard, and finding that Krishna already had a verse for it.

The risk is real though. AI can flatten scripture into productivity self help. The Gita is not a list of bullet points and it should never become one. The work is to use technology to remove friction without removing depth. That balance is the actual hard part of building in this space.

The Gita does not need to be made simpler. It needs to be there at the moment of confusion, in a form a 22 year old in Pune or a 45 year old in New Jersey can actually use. That is what AI lets us do. It is the most exciting thing to be building right now.