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 founder drafts a glowing testimonial to 'save the client time,' the happy customer signs it with one tweak, and now it's on the homepage — technically approved, quietly authored by the person it praises. We score the gap between consent and authorship.
A composite of the eldest who parented their siblings and can't tell where the family's need ends and their own life begins — read through dimensions that openly disagree, with one honest call at the end.
A mid-career hire is promised a lead role, a higher band, and her own team — over the phone and at dinner. The written offer arrives narrower. We score whether signing on faith is trust or self-deception, and the one sentence to send first.
Two people who were close a decade ago now trade one message a year. Should you try to revive the friendship or let it fade? KarmaLens asks what it needs to know, weighs the decision through its eight lenses where they fit, and makes one committed call.
Most tools ask whether an action is wrong once. One of the Gita's eight lenses reads the person the choice turns you into by the hundredth repetition. A reading uses it where it fits — and makes one call, not a comfortable average.
Handing a machine your whole knot and waiting for it to own the choice isn't deciding — it's shopping for someone to blame on Tuesday. Watch four lenses separate outsourcing the reasoning from outsourcing the verdict.
One synthetic composite — 'Should I take the transfer?' — is really a career move and a relationship test welded together. Watch the read split them, run the eight lenses on each, and refuse to average two answers into one.
A founder quietly cut a leaving account a steep retention deal to save the logo. Now the loyal, full-price customer found out. We score the collision between honesty about the past and survival of the present on four lenses.
A generous transfer that quietly became a fixed household bill. When help you chose freely hardens into an obligation you can't unwind, is stopping abandonment — or is continuing the real harm? A committed eight-lens read.
A composite career dilemma: a solid outside offer weighed against a role you'd happily keep — if only someone had thanked you. Scored the Gita's way, where the tell isn't the offer, it's the fantasy of being missed.
Withdrawal feels like the strong, dignified move — it costs you nothing to say, because you're not saying anything. We run one composite silent-treatment standoff through four of the eight lenses to find where a boundary ends and a rigged test begins.
When the arguments for and against feel perfectly, maddeningly equal, the deadlock is usually a lens you left off the page. Here's how the fixed eight surface the one you can't reach for on your own.