It's typical for "spiritual teachers" to answer questions in a way that the answer takes a month to be understood. The fact that the answer isn't understood at the moment it's given doesn't mean that it was not the right answer at that point of time. It's not clear to me that you can always short circuit that month by providing a different explanation.

Of course, this makes "the meaning was imparted originally, rather than being chosen post-hoc" into an unfalsifiable position.