Importance of Shri Krishna's education for the upliftment of Indian society
After all, have we ever wondered why Shri Krishna explains again and again in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita that God does not exist anywhere in the outside world, in any other world, but to be God is a state which any person can achieve by performing certain actions in a certain way. It is an education that respects the immense potential of human beings, negates discrimination between human beings, inspires human beings to adopt established good qualities and talks of social interest and common good. But at the same time, the teachings of Shri Krishna openly oppose all kinds of evils, all kinds of discrimination, superstitions, atrocities, false speech etc.
In the teachings of Shri Krishna in Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, tyranny, selfishness, violence, falsehood, subjugation, narrow practices and social evils are attacked and one gets inspiration to work selflessly for the common good of the society. These teachings inspire us that we should raise the level of self, develop good qualities like truth, non-violence, love, dedication, service etc.
While Shri Krishna talks about social upliftment on the one hand, he also gives great importance to personal freedom. He makes it clear that a person is responsible for his/her own actions and a person's upliftment is possible only when he/she himself/herself makes efforts. His/her upliftment is not possible by anyone else, not even by one who is called God. In this way, Shri Krishna appears as a wonderful philosopher and karma yogi, who successfully proves that the development of the individual leads to the welfare of the society and society prospers to support individuals in the process of their upliftment. In this whole process, Shri Krishna opposes any kind of discrimination between human beings and believes that there is divinity in every person, which every person has right to achieve.
If we understand and adopt this philosophy of Shri Krishna, then many traditions in the Indian society van be safely concluded as evils and then we can get rid of them and uplift the Indian society. And the same truth applies equally to all societies of the world.