Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita on Dharma
Dharma in the Gita is duty, order, and the right way to stand in a crisis—not a loose synonym for “religion.”
Translations of dharma vary. Read the verse in Sanskrit and in your language before treating any English gloss as final.
Bhagavad Gita 2.7
Arjuna, confused about dharma, asks to be taught as a disciple.
Overcome by the stain of compassion and bewildered on the path of duty, I ask you: please determine and tell me what is most beneficial for me, for I am your disciple; instruct me who have taken refuge in you.
Bhagavad Gita 3.35
Svadharma is better than the well-performed duty of another.
Better is one's own Dharma though imperfect than the Dharma of another well performed; death in one's own Dharma is beneficial, but the Dharma of another brings fear.
Bhagavad Gita 4.7
Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises, Krishna says he manifests.
O Bharata! Whenever there is decline of Dharma and rise of adharma, then I manifest Myself.
Bhagavad Gita 4.8
For protection of the good, destruction of the wicked, and establishment of dharma.
For the protection of the righteous, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of Dharma, I manifest Myself in every age.
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