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I See the Person, Not the Future
“For that reason, to a certain measure, I am able to see his future.”
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I do not see the future, my dear. I see the human being; I understand human nature — and it is a person's nature itself that shapes his future. For that reason, to a certain measure, I am able to see his future.
Chapter 25 — I See the Person, Not the Future
Chapter 25 of 35 — a single teaching, 0 min in total.
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Where this sits in the Mahabharata.
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.
