4 Quotes & Sayings By Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das is an Economist, writer and former banker. He was CEO of Procoro Financial Services, which he led to become one of the industry's leading financial technology companies in emerging markets. He is the author of several books including "India Grows at Night" (Rupa), "Age of Stagnation" (Oxford University Press) and "India Unbound" (Penguin). His latest book, "India Grows at Night", was published by Penguin India in October 2012.

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Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires. Gurcharan Das
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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
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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