The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 14-2.

Chapter 14: The Absolute Pervading the Universe-2.

The word dharma is now here revealed in its true colours—not as a cult, creed, law, rule, or principle of action in a human world—but a supreme system according to which the whole universe operates.

The word dharma is interpreted in the most general manner, and comprehensive enough to absorb into its connotation everything that we regard as right, virtuous or righteous.


Now, the great Teacher of the Bhagavadgita takes us right into the heart of the matter when He directly declares at once what this dharma is, on what it is rooted and what it is expected to reveal in the lives of people in the world.

Maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina : -

This half-verse is the rock bottom of all expressions of law and rule going by the name of dharma, in one way or the other.

Any rule, law, or principle is a method or manner in which we accommodate ourselves into the existing order of things.

This capacity of self-accommodation in respect of the existing order of things is not only obedience to law, abidance by rules, but it is equivalent to righteousness.

This is what we call virtue, goodness and so on.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....