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1/ The first scene in The Bhagavad Gita is Arjuna (a prince and warrior) is faced with the prospect of civil war (Kurukshetra war) with friends, teachers and family on both sides of the battle over who is the rightful heir to the throne. He's overcome with sorrow at the lives that are to be lost, blood of his family that is about to be spilled, and doesn't think its worth 3 worlds let alone one world to go into battle for this, is pretty much frozen in his tracks, not knowing what to do.
Sri Krishna, who is Arjuna's charioteer and also the divine incarnation of everything that has ever existed, exists today and ever will, in an earthly form (because the Gods like to visit every now and then) -- comes to help him as his charioteer, and also to help Arjuna understand his path and what to do next. This is pretty much the premise of the Bhagavad Gita.
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2/ When you start to bring the idea of building a product, or starting the company usually involves creating something new into the world -- let's say a new service, or new product, a new process, some new art, a new way of doing things - some sort of creation, it triggers a cascading series of events that unfold into the world
First, the consequences of these are usually desired outcomes, if you are lucky, the goal that the product was supposed to do for customers and users alike, it actually does them and thats great. That's the positive part of it. There is also a hidden negative part of the consequences of these cascading is an understanding that there will be destruction. Sometimes it is in the form of pollution, corruption, ruining peoples lives etc etc. 2 replies
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Thought-provoking thread! Brave, even. I've found it especially challenging to explain the sophisticated principle of dharma to folks under the influence—often unwittingly—of Judeo-Christian metaphysics.
In the crudest terms, the Gita illustrates the idea of "damned if you do, damned if you don't". This might be the gist of karma yoga, which emphasizes the value of engaging with the world, or "building", as one might say here.
In short, I agree and I say yes to building, and yes to a heightened awareness of all of the fruits of our actions.
Another gift of the Gita to Western readers might be the emphasis on deep time through cycles of death and rebirth. The cosmic dance unfolds in its own time and we get to make mistakes, and tweak things, and learn to fall in love with it all, over and over again. 2 replies
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