Mahabharat Episode 70: The Reason Why Karna’s Talent Went Waste

“If competence is accompanied by grace, it will help you become much larger than you are by yourself.” —Sadhguru

Right from his birth, Karna neither had grace nor luck with him. Out of his own terrible longing to be someone, before he matured, he made wrong alliances that he could not get out of. He was in too much of a hurry. It is like some of the choices you made as a teenager. Looking back, you probably regret some of the choices you made at that age. Fortunately for most of you, you have grown out of such things.

When someone offered him a hand, Karna took it, because he was so desperate. After that, there was no turning back. He did not choose to have grace–he chose to have arrogance as his company. For this reason, all his talents went to waste. This is a truth of life: Whatever competence and capability you may have will be crippled and not bear fruit when you are arrogant. If competence is accompanied by grace, it will help you become much larger than you are by yourself. That is how life should be. That means you are living well.

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