Chaitanya Charan spoke at
Harvard’s Bhukti Yoga Conference in 2025 about action and transcendence in the Bhagavad-gita.
Arjuna faces adversity even though he is a good. That life is suffering is a
Noble Truth in Buddhism. Why noble? Even suffering can be ennobling. That life
can be unfair is a given in the Gita. Getting less than we think we
deserve can be from our bad karma in a previous life. So, we can’t really know
what we actually deserve, so it is important to accept results. They aren’t in
our control anyway, whereas our present karma is. So, the advice is to be
committed to doing your best in acting, but with detachment on whatever results
from the action. I contend that detachment from pride and especially arrogance
goes automatically with the transcendence of detachment from not only the
results of one’s actions, but also from the created realm itself, which by
analogy looks smaller and smaller as the planet Earth does from a spacecraft on
the way to the Moon.
The full essay is at "Transcendence in Action in the Bhagavad-gita."
