Dharma & Design
Keshava is a name of Shri Krishna. This corner of the site is a personal offering: what the Bhagavad Gita and the love of Radha and Krishna have taught me about building technology with care.
Beginning where Arjuna began
Keshava (केशव) is one of the many names of Shri Krishna. In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna calls him Keshava at the very start of his crisis (1.31), when he sees the battlefield and cannot see his way. I chose the name because I wanted this work to begin there too: with honest questions, in the moment before action.
I build AI systems for a living. Every day I see the same pattern the Gita describes: power is easy to acquire, and wisdom about how to use it is the hard part. Technology multiplies intention. Dharma, right conduct, is what keeps the intention clean.
Technology without love is only cleverness. Love without craft is only wishing. I would like to build with both.
Devotion as attention
In the Vaishnava tradition, Radha is love and devotion itself, and Radha–Krishna is the union of the devotee and the divine, of bhakti and wisdom. Many of us greet each other with “Radhe Radhe.” I do not claim to explain a tradition that has been sung for centuries; I can only offer what I have felt as a builder.
Attention given with love is the most reliable engineering practice I know. Reading the log line twice. Naming things well. Testing the unlovely edge case. Caring about the person who will meet your system on their worst day. In my own language, I call it care; in the tradition, it has a far deeper name.
Krishna the charioteer
In the Mahabharata, Krishna chooses to guide Arjuna without taking up arms himself. A model for human–AI work: give counsel and clarity, and leave the final act with the one who must act.
Radha, the heart of the work
Devotion is not noise or show. It is steady, patient attention to the work and to the people it serves.
Where the Gita meets the craft
Each card pairs a verse with a plain-language meaning, my own reflection for people who build technology, and the chapters of From One Call to a Platform where the idea shows up in practice.
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Seeing the whole
In the eleventh chapter of the Gita, Arjuna is shown the whole of existence at once. Observability is the engineer’s small version of that: the humility of seeing what a system is truly doing. See the Observability chapter.
Power with discipline
Great power is safe only with restraint. Scoped permissions, approval gates and kill switches are how we hold power without being held by it.
The hollow flute
The bansuri makes music because it is empty. A good system is the same: clear, simple, and out of the way of the people it serves.
Sunday reflections
One verse, one idea for builders, once a week.
Before you ship
A minute of stillness before any release. Three questions, borrowed from the ethics of yoga:
- Satya (truth): is what this system claims actually grounded and true?
- Ahimsa (non-harm): who could this hurt, and can it be undone quickly?
- Aparigraha (non-clinging): am I releasing this to serve, or gripping the result?
Then breathe once, and offer the work.
Verse of the day
A verse each day, with its meaning and a reflection for builders.
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