Acharya Prashant explains that the interpretation of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita varies based on the needs and historical context of the reader. He notes that Indian freedom fighters like Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Jawaharlal Nehru emphasized the message of duty and action because they were responding to a colonized, lethargic India that needed a call to rebellion. In contrast, Western thinkers like Aldous Huxley and Henry David Thoreau focused on the philosophical and insightful aspects of the Gita because their society already possessed outward action but lacked inner depth and self-realization.