Gita & the Spirit of True Independence

Happy 4th

Jul 04, 2025

The one who sees independence in dependence and dependence in independence truly sees.

Wishing everyone in the US, a happy 4th

📖 Just One Verse

karmaṇyakarma yaḥ paśhyed akarmaṇi cha karma yaḥ
sa buddhimān manuṣhyeṣhu sa yuktaḥ kṛitsna-karma-kṛit
“He who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men…” — Bhagavad Gita 4.18
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The one who sees independence in dependence and dependence in independence truly sees.

Independence

Independence is not an endpoint. It’s a muscle—one that atrophies if we don’t use it.

But here’s the paradox: no one is truly independent.

We are bound by invisible threads—of kindness, duty, love, and shared humanity. We lean on one another, whether we know it or not. We live in ecosystems of interdependence, and that’s not weakness—it’s wisdom.

So what does freedom really mean?

To me, independence means to reclaim your agency and thus freedom

To think our thoughts.
To speak them.
To write them.
To ask questions and not be judged for it.
To be able to express your potential
To find your self in nature.
To read the verses of the Gita and challenge them, wrestle with them, apply them.

That’s the kind of independence we cherish—the kind that leads us inward toward self-awareness, and outward toward compassion.

We couldn’t do our best work without that kind of freedom.

And in truth, who could?

In that spirit, we’re not here to preach or prescribe.

But we will offer this one approach: