So, Sreenivas says that Jampala said "Never occurred to me to look for deeper
philosophical meanings into these lines".
Many times there are several meanings. This happens even in current day
film songs, double entendres done to position themselves just on this
side of propriety. No, I'll take that back some, years ago, that used to
the case mostly, nowadays, for whatever the reason (may be they think
that the dumb public doesn't "get it" unless they underline, boldface,
italicize, and put quotes around it), they flaunt them quite openly.
I used to think that I can't hear the lyrics in the midst of the raucous
music/noise; I am glad now that I don't hear the lyrics.
But that is digression.
The several meanings are sometimes intentional. Sometimes they are
seen only by people with a ceretain perspective. Just as geeta is
interpreted by advaitins, viSishTAdvaitins, and dwaitins, as propounding
their own brand of philosophy (why, I had a relative who interpreted
it to support Communism), the various meanings are apparent to people
with various perspectives. But the meaning, or the possibility has to
be there before it could be interpreted to be so.
Back when I was growing up in Secunderabad, I used to go to a lot
of literary/religious discussions, and used to hear the following
verses quite often.
loukikAnAm hi sAdhUnAm, artham vAganuvartatE
RsheeNAm punarAdyAnAm vAca marthOnudhAvati - uttara rAma caritam 1-2
kAvyam yaSasE artha kRtE vyavahAra vidE SivEtarakshatayE
sadyah paranirvRtayE kAntA sammita tayOpadESayujE (JKM-please correct)
and the Ananda-scale.
The first verse is loosely translated as - for ordinarily good poets,
the meaning follows the word that is used carefully. For the truly great
Rshis, a word is used, and great meaning(s) follow.
On the face of it, it sounds as hyperbole. But I have seen many instances of it
One can be a carpenter, blacksmith, programmer, anything. When you are an
expert at your craft, you tend to do things the "right" way, without
thinking a great deal about them. Almost instinctively. You do the thing
as you know it, and it happens to be right.
(The second verse mentions the features of a kAvyam. Among the many things,
it says that a kAvyam teaches you in a mild-mannered way - kAntA sammitamu.
As opposed to this, Sastra is supposed to teach you in a commanding way -
prabhu sammitamu)
Ramakrishna