Hello,
I always wondered why ancient text like Gita,Vedas, Purans, Bible, Kuran etc are difficult to understand. Why things were not easily written, I have found that it is same with most of the people around the world. The ancient knowledge / wisdom is too hard to understand.
I only wonder if the people who wrote them were so intelligent to write something like this, but still they didn't made it easy, they made it very hard to understand from the beginning and it is same with any culture or any ancient text you pick up, they all be very difficult to understand.
A simple explanation is people who wrote such amazing books they were very intelligent no doubt, they must have wrote them like that deliberately. I mean they can easily write things which are easy to understand, but none of them even tried that, I think they made good effort to write things in riddles so that only few can understand. I came to know about these few from a recent book I read.
I recently read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, amazing book btw, but the most amazing thing I noticed that every culture in the world has wisdom to offer through there word which are simply ancient books, but all these words are very difficult to understand, the authors of such books made them difficult to understand as they wanted only few WORTHY people can really understand the true meaning of ancient words.
According to the book the ancient people did this because they believed that knowledge is power and only worthy understands significance of such power, this power in hands of unworthy or wrong guy can cause great disasters. of course bad people can be knowledgeable and can understand the true meaning but still very few will really understand it.
Simply with great power comes great responsibility.
I wasn't aware about this earlier, but I really think this is the explanation if you find a book like Shrimad Bhagwat Gita too hard to understand or don't make sense, then simply because it is intended to be studied hardly. Simply in order to understand it you need to spent good amount of time with it that' all.
So happy learning.
Thanx
Anshumaan Bakshi
I always wondered why ancient text like Gita,Vedas, Purans, Bible, Kuran etc are difficult to understand. Why things were not easily written, I have found that it is same with most of the people around the world. The ancient knowledge / wisdom is too hard to understand.
I only wonder if the people who wrote them were so intelligent to write something like this, but still they didn't made it easy, they made it very hard to understand from the beginning and it is same with any culture or any ancient text you pick up, they all be very difficult to understand.
A simple explanation is people who wrote such amazing books they were very intelligent no doubt, they must have wrote them like that deliberately. I mean they can easily write things which are easy to understand, but none of them even tried that, I think they made good effort to write things in riddles so that only few can understand. I came to know about these few from a recent book I read.
I recently read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, amazing book btw, but the most amazing thing I noticed that every culture in the world has wisdom to offer through there word which are simply ancient books, but all these words are very difficult to understand, the authors of such books made them difficult to understand as they wanted only few WORTHY people can really understand the true meaning of ancient words.
According to the book the ancient people did this because they believed that knowledge is power and only worthy understands significance of such power, this power in hands of unworthy or wrong guy can cause great disasters. of course bad people can be knowledgeable and can understand the true meaning but still very few will really understand it.
Simply with great power comes great responsibility.
I wasn't aware about this earlier, but I really think this is the explanation if you find a book like Shrimad Bhagwat Gita too hard to understand or don't make sense, then simply because it is intended to be studied hardly. Simply in order to understand it you need to spent good amount of time with it that' all.
So happy learning.
Thanx
Anshumaan Bakshi
