Big mistakes lead you to where you need to be
When the Scene Feels Wrong
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna freezes. He’s supposed to fight, but everything feels… off. His heart says stop, his duty says go, and he’s caught between the two like a badly written love triangle. Krishna’s advice?
“Do your work. Do it fully. Stop obsessing over the result.” It sounds simple, almost too simple. But it’s a reminder that your judgment of “right” or “wrong” is often made before the story is done. From the middle, chaos feels like failure. From the end, it might look like transformation.
Your Path Isn’t a Democracy
One of the most comforting and irritating truths of the Gita is this: your path is yours alone. You don’t need a group vote to approve it. Even if your choices confuse others, even if they confuse you, they are still more authentic than living a perfect copy of someone else’s life.
Because what works for them might be poison for you. The Gita doesn’t tell you to be reckless; it tells you to be real. And real often feels messy before it feels right.
The Illusion of Certainty
We live in a world that worships “the plan”, five-year plans, career maps, relationship milestones. The Gita challenges this obsession with certainty.
It teaches that clarity often comes after commitment. That you may have to walk miles in fog before you see the mountain. And that the lack of instant understanding doesn’t mean you’re lost—it means you’re still unfolding.
Letting Go Without Giving Up
There’s a subtle but profound difference between letting go and walking away. Letting go, as Krishna puts it, means doing your best without chaining your worth to the outcome. It means you can care deeply, but not let the result decide whether you were “right” or “wrong” all along.
When you release the grip on “how it must turn out,” you leave space for life to surprise you, for the so-called mistakes to become your best chapters.
The Quiet Power of Trust
Trusting your path isn’t blind faith. It’s choosing to believe that even in the mess, there’s meaning. That even in the detour, there’s direction. And that maybe, the parts of your journey you’re most desperate to erase will one day be the parts you’re most grateful for.
The Gita doesn’t promise that you’ll always feel sure. It promises something better: that if you keep walking with honesty, courage, and heart, the path will reveal itself as yours. So yes, today might look like a mistake. But give it time. Some wrong turns aren’t wrong at all, they’re just the long way home.
Mistakes are not failures, they are direction:
When we make mistakes in life, it may seem like we wasted time or backslidden.
But sometimes those same mistakes are opportunities to learn, change, and grow — which actually gets us where we wanted to be.
A means of growth:
Mistakes often start a process of introspection and self-development.
The lessons we learn from mistakes help us make better decisions, understand the depth of life, and have compassion for others.
Mistakes = bridges, not walls:
Mistakes are not walls that stop us, but bridges that take us to the next level — if we accept them, learn from them, and move on.
An example:
Someone may have chosen the wrong career path, but that same experience showed him what he was truly interested in. If he hadn’t made the mistake, he might never have found his true path.
Conclusion:
It is not wrong to make mistakes,
It is wrong not to learn from mistakes.
So if you have done something “wrong” in life – it may be taking you to where the “right” thing is waiting for you.
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