KarmaLens blog
Real, worked examples of hard decisions read through eight Bhagavad Gita lenses — and the reusable way of looking at your own dilemma that you can take with you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good advice from a chatbot needs the calm you don't have mid-dilemma. A fixed instrument doesn't. A worked 2am composite, scored on four lenses, plus a test you can run tonight.
Your KarmaLens reading just landed and you agreed with it — and still didn't move. Here's a full synthetic Sarathi Session: the verdict, the question you were avoiding, and the four free exchanges that turn a direction into a decision.
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.
Past a certain point, one more opinion isn't research — it's an alibi. We score the chronic re-asker's real move on four fixed lenses and give one committed call.
KarmaLens scores every dilemma on eight fixed lenses from -5 to +5 — so you can't cherry-pick the one that flatters you. Here's what each lens sees, and what happens when two of them disagree.
A three-year relationship, one person quietly keeping score, and the stay-or-leave question that turns out to be a disclose-or-don't question in disguise. Scored end to end on eight fixed lenses.
A better offer, a startup that can't run without you, and a grudge you haven't said out loud. We score the classic quit-or-negotiate dilemma on three lenses that actually bite — and land one committed call.
A composite move-cities-vs-ageing-parents dilemma, scored on eight fixed lenses. Where duty and clean motive disagree — and how to tell guilt apart from dharma tonight, for free.