The lens you keep skipping is the verdict
You've read your dilemma a dozen times and keep landing where you wanted. A composite family-loan case shows the tell: the lens you skim fastest is usually the one holding the answer.
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Decide when you're too worked up to think.
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.
When two lenses disagree: which one wins?
You ran your dilemma and the reasons split — duty says stay, detachment says let go. A worked composite showing why the Gita method doesn't average the contradiction away, it reads it.
Your co-founder is coasting. Buy them out, or wait?
Your co-founder holds equal equity and does half the work — and naming it makes you feel like the greedy one. We run one composite founder fork across four lenses and give a committed call.
The parent who funded your life now wants a say in it
A composite family case: parents paid for the degree, the deposit, the wedding — and now use the ledger to steer a career move nobody asked them to weigh in on. Watch four lenses separate gratitude from an unsigned bill.
The promotion over the friends you complain with
You're offered the lead role over three teammates you've shared lunch and grievances with for four years. The raise is real. So is the loss. We run one composite through the lenses that separate wanting the title from being right for it.
They apologized. Why does it still feel unfinished?
A sibling sends a flawless apology after breaking a promise — and accepting it feels like swallowing a stone. We separate the three things that stone actually is, and why two lenses openly disagree.
Whose wedding is it: yours, or the family's?
You wanted forty people in a garden. They quietly promised three hundred. Run the tension through duty and wider welfare, and find out what the guest list is actually buying.
Forgive, or just stop bringing it up?
The fight ended months ago, but the flinch didn't. A composite couple shows why 'I let it go' and 'I stopped counting out loud' look identical from the outside and rot in opposite directions.
Nishkama karma for people allergic to 'let go'
Detachment isn't a nap. Rescue the most greeting-carded lens: it's outcome-craving, not the goal, that scores badly — walked through one composite promotion fight and a two-column test you can run tonight.
You can't prompt well at 2am. That's when it matters.
Good advice from a chatbot needs the calm you don't have mid-dilemma. A fixed instrument doesn't. A worked 2am reading, where KarmaLens asks the decisive unknowns first then makes one call, plus a step you can take tonight.
Anatomy of a Sarathi Session
Your KarmaLens reading just landed and you agreed with it — and still didn't move. Here's a full look at a Sarathi conversation: the call, the question you were avoiding, and how talking it through with Sarathi turns a direction into a first step, held open until you mark it done.
Arjuna froze in his chariot. You freeze at 2am.
The Bhagavad Gita opens on the oldest recorded case of decision paralysis — a warrior who can't decide and keeps asking. Here's what changed the question, run through a real composite dilemma.