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notions about Bhagavad Gita because then only you will understand its own logic. There are very many preconceived notions that we have got in our head not due to our mistake but that is what environment has provided us.
The Master starts not with Bhagavad Gita proper but with the nature of mind. The simple unassuming character of mind has changed with the march of time and has assumed a colourful disposition, and begun to shed its effect on everything in us, both outer and inner. It seems to be quite a philosophical sentence, not all that philosophical, but it only means that over a period of time we have developed so many ideas, so many notions. What was a pure state of mind because mind is basically pure, it is just like child, new born child. We went on imbibing all impulses by putting in our head and assimilating it and that we started accepting some and rejecting some. That is what He means by colourful or colouring it. By itself none of them have got any colour, we grant it a colour. We accept some and we reject some.
Whatever, therefore, we take into our thought or action exhibits colourfulness in all its phases. So our thinking gets vitiated because of the colours we have accepted. Certain things appear to be correct and certain things appear to be wrong not because they are right or wrong or good or bad but, because we think so.
Our excessive attachment to the environment, and surroundings of a similar nature, create in us heaviness and grossness. Excessive attachment - please note the word. Attachment, we can't help because we are attached, existence means attachment. We have got to live together, we can't help there - environment.