Gita’s learnings · धर्म
Whenever dharma declines, the Divine acts to restore it.
The teaching
5 shlokas below, each in Sanskrit, transliteration, and plain words.
The Gita is spoken because dharma is in danger. Its most-quoted promise is that whenever righteousness declines and its opposite rises, the Divine appears — age after age — to protect the good, remove what is harmful and set dharma on its feet again.
For the individual, dharma is not abstract. The Gita names the three gates that lead away from it — desire, anger and greed — and says plainly: give them up. It ends with the assurance that wherever Krishna and Arjuna stand together — wisdom and right action — there victory and well-being are certain.
The Trust’s third object — “to propagate religion and its basic ideals among the general public” — is our small share in the work of 4.7–8. This website is part of it.
At the BhawanThe shlokas
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्॥
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata / abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham
Whenever righteousness weakens and unrighteousness rises, Arjuna, I bring Myself into being.
हिंदी · हे भारत, जब-जब धर्म की हानि और अधर्म की वृद्धि होती है, तब-तब मैं स्वयं को प्रकट करता हूँ।
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām / dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge
To protect the good, to destroy the wicked, and to establish dharma firmly, I appear in every age.
हिंदी · साधुओं की रक्षा के लिए, दुष्कर्मियों के विनाश के लिए, और धर्म की स्थापना के लिए मैं युग-युग में प्रकट होता हूँ।
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः।
कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्॥
tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśanam ātmanaḥ / kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet
Three gates lead to the ruin of the self — desire, anger and greed. Therefore give up all three.
हिंदी · आत्मा का नाश करने वाले नरक के तीन द्वार हैं — काम, क्रोध और लोभ। इसलिए इन तीनों को त्याग दो।
तस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ।
ज्ञात्वा शास्त्रविधानोक्तं कर्म कर्तुमिहार्हसि॥
tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākārya-vyavasthitau / jñātvā śāstra-vidhānoktaṁ karma kartum ihārhasi
Let the scriptures be your authority in deciding what should and should not be done. Knowing what they lay down, act accordingly.
हिंदी · क्या करना चाहिए और क्या नहीं — इसके निर्णय में शास्त्र को प्रमाण मानो। शास्त्र के विधान को जानकर ही कर्म करो।
यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः।
तत्र श्रीर्विजयो भूतिर्ध्रुवा नीतिर्मतिर्मम॥
yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanur-dharaḥ / tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama
Where Krishna, the lord of yoga, and Arjuna, the archer, stand together — there are prosperity, victory, well-being and firm justice. This is my conviction.
हिंदी · जहाँ योगेश्वर श्रीकृष्ण हैं और जहाँ धनुर्धर अर्जुन हैं — वहीं श्री, विजय, ऐश्वर्य और अचल नीति है। यही मेरा मत है।
Common questions
Gita 4.7: “Whenever there is a decline of dharma and a rise of adharma, I bring Myself into being.” The next verse (4.8) gives the purpose: to protect the good, remove the wicked and re-establish dharma, age after age.
Righteous order — both the duty proper to each person (svadharma) and the moral law that holds the world together. The Gita treats keeping it as the highest human task and names desire, anger and greed as its chief enemies.
