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four, and one cannot make it equal three or five. Yet although it is not possible to alter real knowledge, people have taken to the fashion of understanding Vedic knowledge in any way they like. It is for this reason that we have presented  Bhagavad-gītā  As  It Is . We do not create meanings by concoction. Sometimes commentators say that the word  kurukṣetra  in the first verse of  Bhagavad-gītā  refers to one's body, but we do not accept this. We understand that Kurukṣetra is a place which still exists, and according to the Vedic version it is a  dharmakṣetra , or place of pilgrimage. People still go there to perform Vedic sacrifices. Foolish commentators, however, say that Kurukṣetra means the body and that  Pañca Pāṇḍavas  refers to the five senses. In this way they distort the meaning, and people are misled. Here Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms that all Vedic literatures, including the  Upaniṣads ,  Brahma-sūtras  and others, whether  śruti ,  smṛti  or  nyāya , must be understood according to their original statements. To describe the direct meaning of the Vedic literatures is glorious, but to describe them in one's own way, using imperfect senses and imperfect knowledge, is a disastrous blunder. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully deprecated the attempt to describe the  Vedas  in this way.
Regarding the  Upaniṣads , the following eleven  Upaniṣads  are considered to be the topmost:  Īśa ,  Kena ,  Kaṭha ,  Praśna ,  Muṇḍaka ,  Māṇḍūkya ,  Taittirīya ,  Aitareya ,  Chāndogya ,  Bṛhad-āraṇyaka  and  Śvetāśvatara . However, in the  Muktikopaniṣad , verses 30-39, there is a description of 108  Upaniṣads . They are as follows: 
 
 (1)  Īśopaniṣad , (2)  Kenopaniṣad , (3)  Kaṭhopaniṣad , (4)  Praśnopaniṣad , (5)  Muṇḍakopaniṣad , (6)  Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad , (7)  Taittirīyopaniṣad , (8)  Aitareyopaniṣad , (9)  Chāndogyopaniṣad , (10)  Bṛhad-āraṇyakopaniṣad , (11)  Brahmopaniṣad , (12)  Kaivalyopaniṣad , (13)  Jābālopaniṣad , (14)  Śvetāśvataropaniṣad , (15)  Haṁsopaniṣad , (16)  Āruṇeyopaniṣad , (17)  Garbhopaniṣad , (18)  Nārāyaṇopaniṣad , (19)  Paramahaṁsopaniṣad , (20)  Amṛta-bindūpaniṣad , (21)  Nāda-bindūpaniṣad , (22)  Śira-upaniṣad , (23)  Atharva-śikhopaniṣad , (24)  Maitrāyaṇy-upaniṣad , (25)  Kauṣītaky-upaniṣad , (26)  Bṛhaj-jābālopaniṣad , (27)  Nṛsiṁha-tāpanīyopaniṣad , (28)  Kālāgni-rudropaniṣad , (29)  Maitreyy-upaniṣad , (30)  Subālopaniṣad , (31)  Kṣurikopaniṣad , (32)  Mantrikopaniṣad , (33)  Sarva-sāropaniṣad , (34)  Nirālambopaniṣad , (35)  Śuka-rahasyopaniṣad , (36)  Vajra-sūcikopaniṣad , (37)  Tejo-bindūpaniṣad , (38)  Nāda-bindūpaniṣad , (39)  Dhyāna-bindūpaniṣad , (40)  Brahma-vidyopaniṣad , (41)  Yoga-tattvopaniṣad , (42)  Ātma-bodhopaniṣad , (43)  Nārada-parivrājakopaniṣad , (44)  Triśikhy-upaniṣad , (45)  Sītopaniṣad , (46)  Yoga-cūḍāmaṇy-upaniṣad , (47)  Nirvāṇopaniṣad , (48)  Maṇḍalabrāhmaṇopaniṣad , (49)  Dakṣiṇā-mūrty-upaniṣad , (50)  Śarabhopaniṣad , (51)  Skandopaniṣad , (52)  Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad , (53)  Advaya-tārakopaniṣad , (54)  Rāma-rahasyopaniṣad , (55)  Rāma-tāpaṇy-upaniṣad , (56)  Vāsudevopaniṣad , (57)  Mudgalopaniṣad , (58)  Śāṇḍilyopaniṣad , (59)  Paiṅgalopaniṣad , (60)  Bhikṣūpaniṣad , (61)  Mahadupaniṣad , (62)  Śārīrakopaniṣad , (63)  Yoga-śikhopaniṣad , (64)  Turīyātītopaniṣad , (65)  Sannyāsopaniṣad , (66)  Paramahaṁsa-parivrājakopaniṣad , (67)  Mālikopaniṣad , (68)  Avyaktopaniṣad , (69)  Ekākṣaropaniṣad , (70)  Pūrṇopaniṣad , (71)  Sūryopaniṣad , (72)  Akṣy-upaniṣad , (73)  Adhyātmopaniṣad , (74)  Kuṇḍikopaniṣad , (75)  Śāvitry-upaniṣad , (76)  Ātmopaniṣad , (77)  Pāśupatopaniṣad , (78)  Paraṁ Brahmopaniṣad , (79)  Avadhūtopaniṣad , (80)  Tripurātapanopaniṣad , (81)  Devy-upaniṣad , (82)  Tripuropaniṣad , (83)  Kaṭha-rudropaniṣad , (84)  Bhāvanopaniṣad , (85)  Hṛdayo-