Anyone who has to understand Bhagavad-gītā, he has to understand as Arjuna understood it. If you try to understand in a different way, if you want to give a different interpretation of Bhagavad-gītā, that may be a manifestation of your scholarship, but that is not Bhagavad-gītā. By your scholarship you can manufacture some idea.
Just like Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi. Want also wrote an interpretation of Bhagavad-gītā, and he wanted to prove that from Bhagavad-gītā nonviolence. How you can prove nonviolence from Bhagavad-gītā? The, the theme of Bhagavad-gītā is that Arjuna declined to fight, and Lord Kṛṣṇa is just trying to induce him that, "You must fight. You must fight." Ultimately He said that, "The program is already settled by Me. These people who have come here, they will never return. They're destined to die. It is My program. Now, if you like, you can take the credit that you have conquered them." Last of all, He said like that.
Then when the program is that the Bhagavad-gītā clearly says that in this case fighting is necessity, how can you prove that nonviolence is taught in Bhagavad-gītā? That is a different interpretation. You cannot interpret a thing which is . . . whose theme is different. The author, the author of Bhagavad-gītā . . . the author of the Bhagavad-gītā is saying very frankly that, "The purpose of Bhagavad-gītā is now lost.
So I am just trying to convince you. So you try to understand it." The purpose of Bhagavad-gītā is lost because they have been interpreted in a different way. Like as soon as Bhagavad-gītā is interpreted in the ways of a particular scholar or particular man, oh, then the purpose of Bhagavad-gītā is lost.
Now, you'll find in the Tenth Chapter how Arjuna understood Bhagavad-gītā. So you have to follow the footprints. The whole thing is . . . I have several times repeatedly said to you that mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (CC Madhya 17.186). Mahājana. Dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ, mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ. Tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ śrutayo vibhinnāḥ.
It is said that you cannot reach to the right conclusion of the Vedic literature simply by your arguments, by your force of argument or logic. That is not possible. Tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ. There are many things which do not come within our arguments, within our sense of logic. So tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ. You cannot understand the Supreme Truth simply by arguments.