The eight Bhagavad Gita lenses a reading can use on a modern decision — duty, truth, non-harm and the rest — and why you can't cherry-pick them to flatter yourself.
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.
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.
If you already know who you'll blame when your 'safe' choice fails, you may not have made the choice yet — you've picked a defendant. A worked eight-lens read on the escape hatch doing your deciding for you.
You wrote a page of resentment and one sentence about who inherits the fallout. A worked eight-lens read on why the lens you starved can still outscore the one you fed — and a word-count-flip test to run tonight.
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.
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.
You've rehearsed the gentle version of the hard news. A composite manager runs the same softening plan through two lenses — and watches non-harm and honesty score it in opposite directions.
Seven lenses come back green, one comes back at minus three, and you're already typing 'but.' A worked composite on why re-explaining the low lens is the tell that it's the one you have to answer to.
Seven lenses said yes. One said zero. A composite founder's payroll math shows why some floors can't be bought back by a strong total — and a two-lens test you can run tonight.
A composite drafter frames a job move as a better opportunity while the real engine is spite toward the boss who passed him over. Watch KarmaLens read the reason he says against the reason he feels — and see how the call shifts when the decisive unknown is what he actually wants.
Most decisions get weighed by what the decider stands to gain. One of the eight lenses asks the un-flattering question: if your read is wrong, who absorbs the cost — and did they get a vote?
A composite look at deciding to relocate for a partner when loyalty scores +4 and five other lenses come up empty — and why one tall column can't hold a roof.