Tag: Modern Behaviour
Before you post: The wall social media built in your mind
Before you post, something has already decided for you. Will I become what I keep paying attention to? I have been sitting with that question for longer than I expected to. It arrived not during some quiet moment of reflection but in the middle of scrolling, which is where most uncomfortable questions arrive now. In…
Procrastination psychology: Why your brain always delays
You stayed to read this despite having other things to do. That is not weakness. That is procrastination psychology doing exactly what it was built to do. And understanding it changes how you think about every task you have ever pushed to tomorrow. Procrastination is not laziness. It is not poor time management. It is…
Why memes replace feelings. And why that should worry you
The relationship between memes and feelings seems obvious until you look at it directly. You feel something. Someone else made a meme about something close to it. You forward it. The feeling seems shared. But something in that exchange is not quite what it appears to be. You learned the word pointing at the same…
Ahamkara: the ego the Gita actually warned you about. It is not what you think
Duryodhana says something in the Mahabharata that most retellings quietly skip. He says: I know what is right. I cannot do it. I know what is wrong. I cannot stop myself. The Gita has a name for the mechanism behind that admission. Ahamkara meaning, in Sanskrit, is literally this: the I-maker. And understanding it changes…
Eklavya’s Thumb: The Story the Mahabharata Never Defends.
Why did Drona ask for Eklavya’s thumb? It is one of the most searched questions about the Mahabharata and one of the least honestly answered. The short answer is that Arjuna felt threatened and Drona acted on it. The longer answer says something uncomfortable about how institutions handle talent they did not produce and cannot…
Why Did No One Help Draupadi When She Asked the Most Logical Question in the Room?
Why did no one help Draupadi? It is a question that has sat unanswered for three thousand years. Not because there is no answer. Because the answer is uncomfortable. What Had Just Happened Yudhishthira sat down to gamble with Shakuni playing on behalf of Duryodhana. Round by round he lost everything. His wealth. His kingdom.…
Duryodhana real story: What the Mahabharata actually says
The Duryodhana real story is usually told as a simple warning. Greed destroyed him. Pride was his flaw. The Pandavas were righteous and he was not. Villain. Done. The Mahabharata is not done. What the text records, with careful attention, is something far more uncomfortable than villainy. A man was told, by nearly everyone he…
Abhimanyu knew how to enter the Chakravyuha. Nobody taught him how to leave
Abhimanyu learned the Chakravyuha meaning before he was born. His father Arjuna was explaining it to his mother Subhadra one night. The chakravyuha was a military formation shaped like a spinning wheel, seven layers of soldiers rotating inward, each ring harder than the last. Arjuna was describing how to enter it, how to read the…
A Horse and Two Goats by RK Narayan: the funniest sad story ever written
A Horse and Two Goats by RK Narayan is the only story on this list that will make you laugh. It will also, if you sit with it long enough, make you feel something considerably more complicated than laughter. This is what Narayan does. He finds the comedy in the gap between people and then,…
The Bhagavad Gita described your work problem 3,000 years before psychology did.
Nishkama karma meaning, in its most direct translation, is this: action without attachment to its outcome. Three words. One of the most demanding instructions ever given. The Bhagavad Gita places it at the centre of everything Krishna tells Arjuna. Not as a suggestion. As the operating principle of a life lived without being destroyed by…
