I often wonder:
If Krishna sat beside my bed every morning —
watching me fumble with alarms, half-read WhatsApp messages, and a head full of restless plans —
what would he write for me to do today?

I like to think he wouldn’t hand me a corporate checklist, nor a sage’s vow of renunciation.
He would give me something dangerous:
A list so simple and so honest that it would peel the skin off my excuses,
and remind me that each day, even the messiest, is holy if I choose to live it awake.

Krishna’s To-Do List for Me

Wake up and remember who you really are.

Before you touch your phone, before you check the world —
sit still for a minute.
Feel your breath.
You are not your salary, not your failures, not your past regrets.
You are the witness behind it all —
unchanging, immortal, slightly amused at your own drama.

(“You have the right to work, not to the fruits of your work.” — Gita 2.47*)*

Do your duty — no more, no less.

Whatever work lies on your desk today — do it with focus.
Not to please your boss.
Not to be praised.
But because it is yours to do.
And when it’s done, release it like an arrow shot —
don’t chase its target endlessly.

Choose battles worth your inner peace.

Some arguments do not deserve your fire.
Some people do not deserve your explanation.
Pick your battles like a warrior — fight only for what protects your dharma:
your truth, your peace, your integrity.

Feed your senses with beauty, not garbage.

Scroll less.
Read more.
Listen to music that awakens you, not numbs you.
Taste food with reverence.
Look at the sky — not just your screens.

Remember: Suffering is your secret fuel.

Don’t run from it.
When life stings, watch how your mind reacts.
Feel it fully, then rise from it with a story, a lesson, a song.
Pain wastes the lazy man; it polishes the awake one.

Laugh at yourself at least once today.

You take your failures too seriously.
You carry your dreams like heavy stones.
Lighten up — the universe does not mind your clumsiness.
In fact, it loves your imperfect dance.

Go to sleep empty.

Before you lie down tonight, forgive whatever or whoever gnawed at you today.
Do not carry today’s dust into tomorrow’s dawn.
Close your eyes as if nothing was left undone —
for in truth, nothing ever is.

Wake up and remember you are not just a mind, but a witness to your mind.

Before the world’s noise enters you, let your breath remind you:
You are not your errors in code, nor your unfinished poems.
You are the calm watcher who can smile at both.

Be a sincere engineer — but do not become only an engineer.

When you write code, write it clean.
Respect the craft, respect the bug, respect the fix.
But when you log out, remember:
Your mind is bigger than any system.
It was not born just to debug machines —
it was born to debug itself, line by line.

Feed your reading hunger every day.

Read like Arjuna listened —
not to escape war, but to understand it.
Let books be your second breath:
fiction, philosophy, science, poetry — devour it all.
Do not read to impress.
Read to remember how vast your mind is when you don’t limit it to a job title.

Write fearlessly, even if no one reads.

A single honest sentence is better than a thousand perfect lies.
Write your confusion, your anger, your hidden tenderness.
Let words hold your chaos gently, like Krishna held Arjuna’s trembling hand on the battlefield.
Your words may not fix the world — but they will always save you.

Master your craft, but remain a student of wonder.

Yes — learn new frameworks, better algorithms, deeper systems.
Yes — solve problems faster than your peers.
But never stop looking at ordinary life as if it hides poetry under its plain clothes.
To Krishna, the greatest engineer is the one who still bows to the mystery he cannot decode.

When restless, let music calm you — and the sea cleanse you.

Some nights the mind won’t shut up.
Let a song touch the place no book can reach.
And when your head feels too tight for thoughts —
run to the ocean.
Let the salt remind you:
all big thoughts dissolve in waves.

End your day not as an achiever, but as a grateful guest.

Tonight, do not count what you finished.
Count what you learned, what you forgave, what you felt.
Close your eyes with the humility of a guest who knows:
I came here empty-handed,
I leave empty-handed —
except for a mind a little clearer,
and a heart a little softer.

🕉️ Why This List Matters

We engineers think we solve problems —
but the real knots are inside us:
fear, comparison, doubt.
Books untie them.
Poems soften them.
Krishna’s wisdom melts them.
And in this, my engineering, my reading, my writing — they are no longer separate rooms.
They are doors back to myself.

✨ A Punyakoti Thought

May my mind stay sharp like my code,
my heart soft like a good poem,
my life clear like the ocean,
and my soul unshaken like Krishna’s smile behind the battlefield.

If Krishna wrote my to-do list,
he would not make me less ambitious —
he would remind me:
Be hungry to know,
be fearless to write,
be humble to fix,
and be free to live.

✨ A Punyakoti Thought

May my day begin with surrender,
unfold with fierce focus,
and end with the quiet laughter of knowing:
I am not this chaos — I am the stillness behind it.