The eternal question: Which side do I choose?

This article was written as a response to an opinion I read on Facebook. Which talked about how NOT taking any side was even worse than taking the 'wrong' side. That a lot of misery in the world was wrought by people who did not take any side, who chose indifference, who chose not to act. Is this true? 

The most common struggles have been around 'which side to take?', or should we be 'detached'. Does that mean 'indifference' - inaction? How can inaction in face of a problem be the answer? This does merit some investigation.

If Lord Krishna was reborn in a Western household...

An interesting thought experiment that came to mind. We all hail the Gita as the sacred song, but very few can even understand Sanskrit, leave alone the underlying meaning. So there are people who will happily interpret them for us. There are so many interpretations available, many as per the person's convenience! Many of these are termed as 'Masters', their word turning into God's word, which seekers follow. Some we agree with, some we don't. But what are we judging here exactly? Is it just the interpretation? How do we know its true? Who says we will LIKE it if we knew the truth? What we like, dislike is our own UNDERSTANDING - which is yet another layer away from the INTERPRETATION!

Let us imagine that Lord Krishna was reborn in a Western household as 'John Pedro'- brought up in a totally different family, culture, language, style of writing. We can of course assume that the truth he knows is still the same, the message is still the same. What if he even writes a book on it, in English, which is called anything but the Gita, or the song of God? Maybe it is called 'Sharing the truth'. Now this message is FIRST-HAND, cannot be debated.