In life, we often face a brutal question:

Should I do what’s right… or what works?
Should I live by my values?
Or adjust to the messy, unfair, power-driven world around me?

lets understand through my fav wisdom gita characters

Arjuna the Prince of Principle
Karna the Hero of Practicality

Arjuna: Living by the Bow of Dharma
Arjuna was trained, blessed, favored.
He had Krishna as his charioteer, Dharma as his guide, and clarity of purpose.

Arjuna followed principles:

He wouldn’t fight Bhishma until forced.
He hesitated to kill Karna when he was unarmed.
He wept before the war even began, torn between duty and humanity.

Arjuna represents the one inside us who asks first: “Is this right?”
Even when the world pushes us to act fast or strike hard, Arjuna reminds us to pause and remember values.
But…
Principles without flexibility can also become paralyzing.
If not for Krishna guiding him, Arjuna might have abandoned the war.

on the other side , peoples fav

Karna: The Warrior of Reality
Karna, born with divine armor, raised in a charioteer’s home, rejected by status, loved by the underdogs  lived a different story.

He made practical choices:
Aligned with Duryodhana, who gave him dignity when society didn’t.
Took up arms even knowing he was fighting his own brothers.
Broke rules because the world had first broken him.

He didn’t have the luxury of questioning dharma.
For him, loyalty, opportunity, and survival shaped the path not scripture.

So Who Was Right?
That’s the wrong question.
The better one is:

Who do we become… when the world forces us to choose between ideals and survival?
Arjuna teaches us to seek truth, stay centered, and act with a clean heart — but also listen to divine guidance (Krishna).
Karna teaches us that the world isn’t fair, and sometimes you must bend the bow before the rules bend you.

Both are heroic.
Both are tragic.
Both are in us.

Your Inner Arjuna & Inner Karna
When you quit a toxic job because it’s against your values  that’s Arjuna.
When you stay in a tough situation because it feeds your family that’s Karna.
When you delay love for dharma  Arjuna.
When you embrace forbidden love because life gave you no warmth  Karna.
Neither is wrong.
But both demand awareness.

But I choose Arjuna.
Not because he was perfect but because he struggled and still chose dharma.
Because in a world that constantly tempts us to react, to rage, to break our code for quick rewards he paused, he questioned, and he chose alignment over impulse.
Karna was magnificent, but he bent too much to the world
to loyalty that blinded him, to friendships that cost him truth.
Arjuna, though torn inside, stayed open to guidance.
He surrendered his ego to Krishna, and in that surrender, found the strength to act.
In the end, power fades. Tragedy echoes.
But dharma endures.
So when I stand at the crossroads of what’s easy vs. what’s right,

I want to be like Arjuna
conflicted, yes but conscious.
Wounded, yes but walking the path.
Because that’s the warrior I respect the most.