Good Trouble

This is a bit different from a modern day Arjuna, John Lewis' "good trouble" but it's entirely in the same spirit. The voice here is Krishna's. His words are for Arjuna – each one of us – as we look to find our true self in the face of horrific circumstances all around us.

Krishna is driving our vehicle and guiding us to dharma (integrity) the place where we can stand and act without fear of consequences of adharma (corruption). Exactly like the immanent battle that so depressed Arjuna, today's trouble becomes good if we accept it as the challenge needed to lift ourselves up and join in with all others who are in support of rising.

From age to age, a truly great being is born. But the Gītā's central message is that the highest self is fully present within us. When we rise together in the midst of rampant corruption, and through our action, our study, meditation and prayer, bring forth the highest in ourselves, we fulfill the meaning of this verse, and the next below, in our own time.

For the guarding of the good

and the ruin of wrong-doers,

for the fixing of dharma,

I arise in every age

Bhagavad Gītā 4.8

Arjuna had Kṛṣṇa to put the truth before him. We have Kṛṣṇa's words. Learning a verse by heart with meaning makes this knowledge available at all times. Repeat it until it becomes true. For more support see any of the Gītā Learn-a-verses.