For less capable people He wrote the Mahābhārata

Our hero, Arjuna, finds himself in a position of either fighting his cousins, who have gone to war against him, or losing his kingdom and abandoning his duty as a warrior. As he surveys the battlefield, he turns to Krishna, who is taking the form of his charioteer, and inquires about how to make this decision and the nature of the good life. The answer is a recipe: realize that pursuing happiness…