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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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Seeing the person in front of you.
Almost every catastrophe in the Mahabharat runs through somebody being treated as their category. Karna is a charioteer's son before he is anything else; Ekalavya is refused for his birth and gives his thumb anyway; Vidura's counsel is discounted for his mother's status rather than answered on its merits.
Krishna is drawn as the consistent exception. He deals with Karna, Vidura, Draupadi and Duryodhana each as themselves, and the epic makes a point of the ones he treats well whom nobody else does.
