The good for him who desires Moksha is one, and the good for him who wants Dharma is another. This is the great truth... and upon this great truth is established the Varnâshrama system and the doctrine of Svadharma etc. of the Hindu religion.
”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”—(Gita, XII.13.)—these and other epithets of like nature are for him whose one goal in life is Moksha.
”Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ! Ill cloth it befit thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise. O scorcher of thine enemies.”—(Gita, II. 3.) ”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 Savyasâchin (Arjuna).”—(Gita, XI. 33.) In these and similar passages in the Gita the Lord is showing the way to Dharma.
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