What this is (and is not)
KarmaLens offers a reflective ethical reading, not legal, medical, financial, or mental-health advice. Use it as a pause for judgment: clear language, calm framing, and room for your own context.
Guide
How to Read Your Result
KarmaLens gives you a structured reading of your dilemma — not a command. This guide explains what each card means and how to use it.
Start with the verdict, but don't stop there
Verdict
A single, readable line that captures the lean of the reading. It summarizes the tension in your dilemma — not a final word on who you are.
Classification
A broad label for how the choice sits ethically (for example, leaning helpful, harmful, mixed, or unclear). It is a compass direction, not a courtroom label.
Alignment score
A number that expresses how far the described action tilts toward integrity and care versus pressure and harm, on the scale KarmaLens uses. It supports comparison across readings — not a grade on your character.
Confidence
How strong the app feels the reading is, given what you shared. Lower confidence usually means missing detail, ambiguity, or a genuinely borderline case — not that you asked wrong.
Understand what is driving the dilemma
Inner Dynamics
This card names the primary driver — the emotional or practical force most likely steering the story — and a hidden risk, the reflex that can quietly make a hard situation worse. Naming these helps you see the pattern without being reduced to it.
Read the path, not just the judgment
If You Continue
A sober look at what tends to follow if the same pattern continues: short-term relief or pressure, and longer-term costs to trust, relationships, or peace of mind.
Higher Path
A constructive line that points toward integrity without pretending the tradeoffs vanish. Think of it as a cleaner fork in the road, not a guarantee of ease.
Counterfactuals
Two sketched alternatives: one where the choice drifts toward self-serving harm, and one where it moves toward duty and care with clearer intent. They are thought experiments to widen perspective — not predictions of what you will do.
Use the Gita lens carefully
Under Scriptural guidance you will see either a Gita verse or Closest Gita Lens — not both at once.
Gita verse
When a specific, curated verse clears a relevance threshold, KarmaLens shows that verse with careful context. It is offered as a classical lens for reflection — not as a command from the text or from the app.
Closest Gita Lens
When no verse is strong enough to show with confidence, you get a related teaching in plain language instead. Treat it as a neighboring window on the dilemma, not as scripture ordering a single outcome.
Share-ready
A compact, share-friendly layer: a title, a memorable line, and a reflective question you can copy when you want to discuss the dilemma with someone you trust. It is designed for clarity in conversation — not for performance or debate points.
Ethical dimensions
Eight short scores with notes. Each is a different angle on the same choice — together they map tension and alignment without forcing a single story.
Dharma / Duty
How well the action lines up with responsibilities and role obligations you actually carry.
Satya / Truth
Honesty and transparency — what is said, what is withheld, and what others are led to believe.
Ahimsa / Non-harm
Harm or protection for you and others, including emotional and relational harm, not only physical risk.
Nishkama / Detachment
Whether the move is tangled in craving a specific outcome, or whether there is room to act cleanly without being owned by the result.
Shaucha / Intent
How clear or mixed the motive is — convenience, fear, care, pride, and how they stack.
Sanyama / Restraint
Impulse control and discipline: whether the next step respects boundaries you would want to keep in clearer moments.
Lokasangraha / Welfare
Wider impact on family, team, community, or society — who bears the side effects of this choice.
Viveka / Discernment
Clarity of judgment: how well the facts, stakes, and unknowns are separated from noise and self-story.
Missing facts are not a failure
Sometimes KarmaLens lists missing facts — questions that would sharpen the reading if you had answers. They are invitations to notice what you might still need to learn or decide; they do not automatically invalidate the rest of the result. If you can fill them in later, a new run may read differently — and that is expected.
How to use feedback
After a result, you can leave quick feedback about usefulness or fit. That helps improve how results feel over time for everyone. It is not a promise of live human review on every submission unless support has told you otherwise for your case. For something sensitive or broken, you can still email [email protected].