Know when to focus on the cost of something and when on the cause for something. Whenever we do some things, we often evaluate what is it that I’m going to pay for it and what is it that I’m going to gain from it. While such evaluation is natural and even desirable, it also needs to be holistic. That means it needs to take into consideration all the factors that are involved, not just the factors that are immediately evident to us. For example, when we work for a cause bigger than ourselves – at that time the cause can sometimes be so big that it becomes invisible to us; and the cost that we are paying is all that is visible to us and that may deter us from committing. But if we remind ourselves of the big picture, the big cause to which we are contributing, then the cost becomes not prohibitive but manageable.

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18.30 O son of Pṛthā, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, what is to be feared and what is not to be feared, what is binding and what is liberating, is in the mode of goodness.