Trust what you see

The stage-managed announcement of  "Ashwathama hatha kunjaraha (Meaning Ashwathama is dead, but in a soft voice muttered the elephant and not man) made Dronacharya lay down his arms giving Arjuna an edge over Kauravas.  In this announcement bugles and drums were craftily used to hide the truth and create a lie to be believed.

On the other hand, Sanjaya the informer of Dhritarashtra could relay detailed commentary of the Mahabharata battle with his ‘Divya Drushti.’         

Believe and trust your eyes than ears while making an opinion or assessment.

Because, eyes see the truth whereas ears hear what is conveyed which is most of the times either distorted or exaggerated.

When information passes from one person to another, it often gets distorted because the information gets twisted and new and untrue things are added. What we hear is what is told to us i.e., what one speaks with his own intentions, which are biased most of the times. One should always take whatever one listens with a pinch of salt.

We often believe the artificial sounds more attentively i.e., what one speaks to us even when there are natural sounds and noises in the background. On the other hand eye means that it sees what is real.

In this we should see the truth of the object or fact, like when you see a slide in microscope with both eyes open - one eye is seeing through the microscope and mind is registering that object only where as what the other open eye is seeing is ignored.

Eyes and ears are active right from the birth but hearing diminishes with age more than the eyes. Eyes stand by almost till the end of life. Knowledge acquired through eyes is more than the ears.

Humans actually depend more on eyes than ears.

Eyes see farther than the ears can hear.

The medical aspect of eyes and ears or seeing and hearing is that the visual centre in the occipital lobe in the human brain is larger than the statocustic centre (hearing centre) in the temporal lobe.