You project onto it what you want to see.Įnlightenment: The Only Revolution. Some-times a man’s face is seen, sometimes a horse’s face is seen. You must have seen lines made by rain falling on a wall. What he finds is in his mind, he has projected it. But the person looking at it finds something or other. There is nothing there, only an ink stain on blotting paper - randomly thrown, not thrown with any design, just poured from the bottle. The person looks carefully and sees something or other. He will say, “What nonsense! They are clouds, vapor - how is it you see forms in them?” In the West, psychoanalysts use the ink blot test: just pour some ink onto blotting paper and ask the person to say what he sees in it. Someone may see an elephant’s trunk, someone sees the whole body of Ganesha, the elephant god. Krishna’s statements are like clouds surrounding you in the rainy season: you see in them whatever you want. You can draw out any meaning you like from a poem. Krishna has said things in such a way as to allow multiple meanings hence I call his Gita poetic. Hence the founders of each tradition have written commentaries on Krishna’s Gita - Shankara, Ramanuja, Nimbaraka, Vallabha - everyone.
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