12 year-old Muslim girl knows 500 shlokas by heart of Bhagavad Gita

A 12 year old girl Mushariff Khan from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district has left everyone amazed as she can 500 out of the total 701 shlokas in the Bhagavad Gita. Studying in class 8 the girl knows the shlokas by heart

Mushariff started learning the holy Hindu scripture as part of memory retention training, and now she and her parents are proud that she has imbibed the best tenets of another religion.

The girl used memory retention technique taught by her Abacus and Vedic Mathematics teacher Rohini Menon. She started learning  Bhagavad Gita when she was in Class VI and has so far memorised 500 Sanskrit sholkas,” said Menon.

"I wanted to do something different with this short course," Musharraf said. For that I chose the Bhagavad Gita. My parents also allowed me to read the Bhagavad Gita. So that I can know every religion. The Quran, the Gita, the Bible convey the same message. Humanity is the greatest religion".

Mushariff, whose father is a Mathematics teacher and mother a housewife, had joined the short course of Memory Retention under Menon two years back.

Proud of Mushariff’s achievement, her mother Zeenat Khan said, “Yes, we are Muslims. But we want to bring up our daughter in a manner that she grows up to be a noble human being ingrained with the best tenets of every religion.”