‘Krishna was world’s first counsellor’

NEW DELHI: Modern psychiatry has its roots in the Bhagavad Gita, which is the unrecognised textbook of counselling to most psychiatric problems, the president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has claimed.“Lord Krishna, who many revere as God, was the world’s first counsellor and Bhagavad Gita is the first textbook of counselling that has answers to most psychiatric problems,” said cardiologist Dr KK Aggarwal.