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Gurcharan Das Quote: “Customs inspectors could not stop the export of software through telephone lines; labour inspectors could not stop software engineers from talking to customers in America at night; excise inspectors could not harass the IT firms because the government did not levy tax on services. Much like Gurgaon, India’s knowledge economy literally grew at night when the government slept.”

1. “Customs inspectors could not stop the export of software through telephone lines; labour inspectors could not stop software engineers from talking to customers in America at night; excise inspectors could not harass the IT firms because the government did not levy tax on services. Much like Gurgaon, India’s knowledge economy literally grew at night when the government slept.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. – Mahabharata XVIII.113.8.”

2. “One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. – Mahabharata XVIII.113.8.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.”

3. “Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “Its own position veers towards the pragmatic evolutionary principle of reciprocal altruism: adopt a friendly face to the world but do not allow yourself to be exploited.”

4. “Its own position veers towards the pragmatic evolutionary principle of reciprocal altruism: adopt a friendly face to the world but do not allow yourself to be exploited.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “So when Yudhishthira tells Draupadi that eventually human acts do bear fruit, even though the fruit is invisible,56 one might interpret ‘fruit’ to mean the building of character through repeated actions. Yudhishthira was certainly aware that repeated actions had a way of changing one’s inclinations to act in a certain way. That inclination is character.”

5. “So when Yudhishthira tells Draupadi that eventually human acts do bear fruit, even though the fruit is invisible,56 one might interpret ‘fruit’ to mean the building of character through repeated actions. Yudhishthira was certainly aware that repeated actions had a way of changing one’s inclinations to act in a certain way. That inclination is character.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “Dharma is precisely this ‘discipline of ordered existence’, a ’belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.”

6. “Dharma is precisely this ‘discipline of ordered existence’, a ’belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.”

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Gurcharan Das Quote: “Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, ‘fate’, moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.”

7. “Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, ‘fate’, moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “Yudhishthira answers Yaksha’s question – what is man? by saying, ‘The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.”

8. “Yudhishthira answers Yaksha’s question – what is man? by saying, ‘The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “The human tendency to evaluate one’s well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana’s distress.”

9. “The human tendency to evaluate one’s well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana’s distress.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher’s relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie – we corrupt the ‘other’ in the same way.”

10. “By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher’s relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie – we corrupt the ‘other’ in the same way.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.”

11. “When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.”

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Gurcharan Das Quote: “What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?”

12. “What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “The concept of dharma evolved over time, its meaning shifting from a ‘ritual ethics of deeds’ to a more personal virtue based on one’s conscience.”

13. “The concept of dharma evolved over time, its meaning shifting from a ‘ritual ethics of deeds’ to a more personal virtue based on one’s conscience.”

— Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das Quote: “I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?”

14. “I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?”

— Gurcharan Das

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