KarmaLens blog
Real, worked examples of hard decisions, with the Bhagavad Gita behind one clear call — and the reusable way of looking at your own dilemma that you can take with you.
A composite reading for anyone whose far-off parent 'is fine' — and who half-believes it because believing it means they never have to decide. We split the duty that's genuinely yours from the one you've bundled on to avoid.
A composite career read: the offer is excellent this year and quietly wrong for the decade. Four Gita lenses weigh the trajectory the inputs barely mention — plus a free 'tense test' you can run tonight.
The first of the eight lenses you reach for is usually your alibi, and the last one you touch is usually your verdict. A worked composite — and a test you can run tonight on any decision you're already defending.
Asking a chatbot to argue both sides neutralizes the conclusion, not the framing. Here's how a 'fair fight' gets rigged in your own prompt — and what a committed reading does instead.
Most stuck people have quietly swapped someone else's duty in for their own and can't feel it. A worked Gita reading on how to tell a duty that's truly yours from one you inherited to keep the peace.
The plan was booked in a flurry of thumbs-up before you replied — and your silence got filed as a yes. A worked read on telling consent you gave from consent assumed from you, plus a test you can run on tonight's thread.
Your ex found someone in six weeks. You're still not dating, still haven't deleted the photos. A worked Gita reading on the difference between loyalty and keeping score in an empty courtroom.
Most dilemmas get written as a two-body problem: me and the one person I feel bad about. The Gita's non-harm lens refuses that frame — and names the people a self-flattering account quietly edits out. A worked composite, plus the four-chair test you can run tonight.
Someone asks whether to walk away from a shared lease with a friend who stopped paying — and the read lands on the call they were rooting against. Here's the sequence that makes KarmaLens commit, resist, and explain instead of folding.
Two people get the same message from the same struggling friend. The textbook gives one answer. Svadharma gives two — and that's not relativism. A worked read on when 'the right thing' isn't actually yours to do.
A founder sets the free limit not where the product stays healthy, but exactly where users hit a wall mid-task and pay out of frustration — and knows it. A worked reading on telling honest monetization from manufactured pain.
You were ranked below your sibling your whole life, and now you're deciding whether to finally say it. A worked family read on the difference between naming a pattern and detonating one.