Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru, of Mystics and Mistakes.

Amesh Karam, good morning to everyone.

I said good morning.

Sadguru will start with some questions on the internal contradictions that exist within us.

So more on the philosophical side and then we'll move to the world or politics side of the questions.

So our first question is that in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna advises us to keep putting in effort without being attached to the results.

But I find it incredibly hard to keep working and not obsess over the results.

And I would love to know how we can better practice effort, putting in effort while being attached to the results.

Well, I am not in any way well studied about any scripture.

It's unfortunate, but I have to say I have not even read the Gita.

But we know the life of Krishna, that people think Krishna means butter, girls and flute, but you need to understand this.

All these things happen only till he was sixteen years of age.

Till you're sixteen years of age, well, some butter, some flute, how many girls till sixteen?

I'm asking, practically.

So after sixteen, he lived an extremely committed life.

His commitment was to marry the political process of the day with the spiritual process, because he saw, unless those who will power,

or essentially in their experience have a larger sense of life and an inclusive sense of identity.

Not my family, my children, my husband, my wife, this stuff, you have a larger sense of identity. Only then you must wield power.

Otherwise, it will lead to corruption. People say, power is corruption.

Power is not corruption. Limited identity is corruption.

They believe they're doing the right things and they're doing the horrible things all the time, because their identity is so small.

So he was trying to chain this, this was his whole life's mission.

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