“In truth, to perform one's action (karma) and yet hold no attachment to life or to its fruit — that alone is true prayer.”
Whenever some dire situation stands before a person, he prays to God (Ishwar), beseeching Him that he may rise out of it. But what is the true nature of this prayer? Have we ever considered it?
Chapter 18 of 35 — a single teaching, 2 min in total.
The Mahabharata is less a story with a moral than a very long argument about how to act. Its characters are given impossible situations and are judged not on the outcome but on the quality of their reasoning and the honesty of their motives.
Krishna's role throughout is the counsellor who refuses easy answers. He does not remove the difficulty; he changes what the person is able to bring to it.