A 25-year-old software engineer in Bangalore wrote a letter to Krishna from inside her office bathroom. 🚪💔

She has the job everyone wanted her to have. Good company. Good salary.

Her parents proudly show her LinkedIn to relatives. And she cries every single day, hiding from her colleagues.

In this Letter to Krishna episode, we read her letter and find Krishna’s answer in Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18, Verse 47 ✨— the most powerful teaching for every young Indian trapped in a career chosen by their parents instead of their own soul.

🎯 If you are an engineer, doctor, MBA, CA, or any professional who is silently dying in a job you hate but cannot leave because of your parents' sacrifices — this episode is for you.

✉️ THE FULL LETTER

Krishna,

I am writing this from the bathroom of my office. I have been here for fifteen minutes pretending I have a stomach problem. I just needed to cry without anyone seeing me.

I am 25 years old. I work as a software engineer in Bangalore. From the outside my life looks like a success. Good company. Good salary. My parents tell their relatives proudly. My mother shows my LinkedIn to aunties at weddings. I am the daughter who made it.

But Krishna, I hate this job. I hate it so much that I feel sick every Sunday night. The work has no meaning to me. My manager makes me feel small in every meeting. I look at my screen for ten hours a day and I feel like my soul is dying slowly.

I want to leave. I want to do something else. Maybe teach. Maybe write. Maybe just take a break and figure out who I am. But I cannot tell my parents. They worked so hard to send me to engineering college. Papa took a loan. Mumma did not buy a saree for two years. How can I tell them I want to throw it all away?

I feel like I am living someone else's life and slowly disappearing from my own.

Please tell me what to do, Krishna. I cannot keep crying in office bathrooms. But I also cannot break my parents' hearts.

— A daughter, drowning quietly in Bangalore

(Letter writer chose to remain anonymous)

✉️ WRITE YOUR OWN LETTER TO KRISHNA ✍️💌

Send your letter to: [email protected]

Your letter may be read anonymously on this channel to help others.

📔 LETTERS TO KRISHNA JOURNALS 🌿

Begin your own daily practice of writing to Krishna, reflecting on the Gita, and surrendering what is too heavy to carry alone.

🛒 Gumroad: https://themodernmystics.gumroad.com/l/rvlemp

🛒 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/themodernmystic

🔔 SUBSCRIBE for a new Letter to Krishna every Tuesday and Thursday.

#LetterToKrishna #BhagavadGita #CareerConfusion #ModernMystics #Krishna #JobStress #ParentsExpectations #Spirituality #Gita1847 #Svadharma #BangaloreLife #SoftwareEngineerLife ✨