We tend to presume that every letter, every word, every sentence we read write or speak, and every thought that passes through our minds have some very definite and unchangeable meaning.
We are sadly mistaken.
Every split second our thoughts and attitudes change.
The significance of a thought would have undergone major changes by the time our mind process it and it finds articulation through our speech or writing.
Again, others receive and understand the output from us differently according to their perceptions, and circumstances, likes dislikes, prejudices and so on.
In addition, the receiver's attitude is changing constantly.
In spite of this, we try to set up rules as to what we should feel as right and what should be our reactions in a certain set of circumstances.
No one is the same person who he was even a split second ago. Then how can we expect uniformity in the attitudes of different people, or even the same person at different moments?
The lack of constancy is very apparent when we try to interpret the thoughts and ideas contained in many philosophical and spiritual texts, applying our own dogmatic standards.
Take the case of Gita.
If it is really part of Mahabharatham the epic, we can easily see that neither Krishna nor Arjuna followed the tenets of Gita on dotted lines after Krishna imparted it to Arjuna. We easily discover that both of them lives of different patterns for long periods after Gita.
Moreover, even in Mahabharatham, Gita comes as an Audio/Video report by one Sanjaya, and he was reporting to a blind king, Dhritarashtra.
We know how the press and visual media report things in their own ways even now. Moreover, they are not reporting to blind audiences.
Still there is a lot of distortion. Therefore, what can we expect from a video report presented to a blind man?
Again, the song abounds in generalities and deal with solutions to the problems as they arise. The verses do not act exactly as permanent panacea for all the woes and miseries of human existence.
Definitely the ideas are not uniform if we try to understand them from stanza one to stanza seven hundred plus.
Again, so many scholars and generalists have interpreted the contents of Bhagavat Gita. Moreover, they did such interpretations according to their own understanding.
It is easy to feel elated with clichรฉd ideas. However, the utility of every idea lies in the way the end-user understands it.
Anyway, there is one truth. Only one truth.
The truth is that even truth is not absolute..
(Again clichรฉd. However still, this appears to make some sense)
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