Now what is that good which is to be pursued?
The good for him who desires Moksha is one, and the good for him who wants Dharma is another.
This is the great truth which the Lord Shri Krishna, the revealer of the Gita, has tried therein to explain, and upon this great truth is established the Varnashrama system and the doctrine of Svadharma etc. of the Hindu religion.
अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्र: करुण एव च |
निर्ममो निरहंकार: समदु:खसुख: क्षमी || (Gita, XII. 13.)
--"He who has no enemy, and is friendly and compassionate towards all, who is free from the feelings of 'me and mine', even-minded in pain and pleasure, and forbearing"-- these and other epithets of like nature are for him whose one goal in life is Moksha.
क्लैब्यं मा स्म गम: पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते |
क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्तोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप || (Gita, II. 3.)
--"Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Pritha! Ill doth it befit thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of thine enemies."
तस्मात्त्वमुत्तिष्ठ यशो लभस्व जित्वा शत्रुन्भुंक्ष्व राज्यं समृध्दम् |
मयैवैते निहिता: पूर्वमेव निमित्तमात्र भव सव्यसाचिन् || (Gita, XI. 33.)
--"Therefore do thou arise and acquire fame. After conquering thy enemies, enjoy unrivalled dominion; verily, by Myself have they been already slain; be thou merely the instrument, O Savyasachin (Arjuna)."
In these and similar passages in the Gita the Lord is showing the way to Dharma.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
The good for him who desires Moksha is one, and the good for him who wants Dharma is another.
This is the great truth which the Lord Shri Krishna, the revealer of the Gita, has tried therein to explain, and upon this great truth is established the Varnashrama system and the doctrine of Svadharma etc. of the Hindu religion.
अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्र: करुण एव च |
निर्ममो निरहंकार: समदु:खसुख: क्षमी || (Gita, XII. 13.)
--"He who has no enemy, and is friendly and compassionate towards all, who is free from the feelings of 'me and mine', even-minded in pain and pleasure, and forbearing"-- these and other epithets of like nature are for him whose one goal in life is Moksha.
क्लैब्यं मा स्म गम: पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते |
क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्तोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप || (Gita, II. 3.)
--"Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Pritha! Ill doth it befit thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of thine enemies."
तस्मात्त्वमुत्तिष्ठ यशो लभस्व जित्वा शत्रुन्भुंक्ष्व राज्यं समृध्दम् |
मयैवैते निहिता: पूर्वमेव निमित्तमात्र भव सव्यसाचिन् || (Gita, XI. 33.)
--"Therefore do thou arise and acquire fame. After conquering thy enemies, enjoy unrivalled dominion; verily, by Myself have they been already slain; be thou merely the instrument, O Savyasachin (Arjuna)."
In these and similar passages in the Gita the Lord is showing the way to Dharma.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
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