The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 14-3.
YOUNG SWAMI KRISHNANANDA
Chapter 14: The Absolute Pervading the Universe-3.
Conformity to reality is dharma, and anything opposed to it is adharma.
The principle of reality is what determines the nature of dharma or virtue, goodness or righteousness, or rectitude in action, conduct, behaviour, thought and feeling.
So a person who does not have a correct idea of what reality is cannot be really virtuous or righteous.
Our social forms of goodness and virtue, rectitude and legality are relative to the conditions in which we are placed, and inasmuch as they have no reference to the ultimate reality of things, we have to go on changing our colours like chameleons from day to day.
But there can be harmony between the relative forms of dharma and the ultimate form of it.
Our daily conduct may vary according to the needs of the hour.
Seasons, social circumstances, the state of one’s health and various other requirements of the time may demand a relative expression of conformity, all which has to be in harmony, finally, with a principle motive which cannot change.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....
Chapter 14: The Absolute Pervading the Universe-3.
Conformity to reality is dharma, and anything opposed to it is adharma.
The principle of reality is what determines the nature of dharma or virtue, goodness or righteousness, or rectitude in action, conduct, behaviour, thought and feeling.
So a person who does not have a correct idea of what reality is cannot be really virtuous or righteous.
Our social forms of goodness and virtue, rectitude and legality are relative to the conditions in which we are placed, and inasmuch as they have no reference to the ultimate reality of things, we have to go on changing our colours like chameleons from day to day.
But there can be harmony between the relative forms of dharma and the ultimate form of it.
Our daily conduct may vary according to the needs of the hour.
Seasons, social circumstances, the state of one’s health and various other requirements of the time may demand a relative expression of conformity, all which has to be in harmony, finally, with a principle motive which cannot change.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....
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