Unstained, Like a Dewdrop on a Lotus Leaf

answered by Bhagavad Gītā 5:10

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Serpico (1973)

dir. Sidney Lumet · USA

In a place where everyone is a little dirty, the one who tries to stay clean becomes a threat to colleagues and a burden to himself. When the choice not to be stained together makes you an outcast, is honesty a luxury worth keeping, or a self that cannot be given up?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Am I quietly letting the current of 'everyone does it' soak the heart I have kept unstained?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

lipyate na sa pāpena padma-patram ivāmbhasā

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

As a lotus leaf is untouched by water, one who acts without attachment is untainted by evil.

💡 TL;DR

The old teacher of the Gita held up the lotus leaf, unwetted even upon soiled water, as an ideal.

📝The Classic Answers

The old teacher of the Gita held up the lotus leaf, unwetted even upon soiled water, as an ideal. The leaf sheds water not out of hatred for it, but because its own grain is different. One who tries to stay clean alone where all are a little stained is lonely, yet that loneliness is the price of a grain that refuses to be soiled. Before matching myself to the current of the many, I choose first to confirm the grain I have kept. Staying dry is not innocence but grain.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Before something you mean to pass off today as 'just how it's done,' gauge in one line whether it is water that soaks your grain.

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gītā 5:10. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.