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.
A quality manager has 40 minutes to ship a pallet she suspects is flawed. Under a clock, one lens grabs the wheel — and it's rarely the one with standing to go first. A worked read of urgency-logic on all eight lenses.
A reading can use eight lenses on a decision — and sometimes one of them decides it. Why averaging your reasons is the cheat, and how to weigh the dimension you're failing over the ones you're acing.
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.
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.
KarmaLens asks the decisive unknowns first, then makes one call it does not renegotiate — so you cannot reframe the dilemma until you get the answer you wanted. Here is how each Gita dimension reads a decision, and what happens when two of them pull in opposite directions.