Harmony

Harmony, read through chapter 3’s lokasangraha teaching, isn’t about an individual’s personal equanimity — that’s Peace’s territory. It’s about sustaining the cohesion of a world other people depend on, and about the natural order itself operating as a constantly shifting balance rather than a fixed, static agreement between forces.

World’s cohesion, not personal gain

BG 3.20 introduces lokasangraha directly: “Janaka and others indeed attained to perfection by action: then having an eye to the welfare of the world also, thou shouldst perform action.” The motive named here is neither personal gain nor pure liberation-seeking — it’s maintaining the world’s order for its own sake.

Acting for the sake of order, not need

BG 3.22 has Krishna apply the same principle to himself: “there is nothing in the three worlds… that should be done by Me, nor anything unattained that might be attained; yet I mingle in action.” He has nothing left to gain and nothing left undone, and acts anyway — the strongest possible case that sustaining cohesion is a valid motive on its own.

Harmony as dynamic balance, not stasis

BG 14.10 describes the three gunas in constant, shifting dominance — this translation renders sattva as “Harmony,” a term worth flagging as a stylistic choice rather than the everyday English sense the topic is built around. Read past the translation quirk, though, and the underlying image still works as a genuine model: “now Harmony prevaileth, having overpowered Motion and Inertia… now Motion… now Inertia” — never one fixed, permanent state, but a continuous, shifting equilibrium among forces.

Related

• Karma — the disinterested-action framework lokasangraha (3.20, 3.22) extends outward to the welfare of the world.