Tag Archives: dharma

Introduction, dharma(s) and meta-dharma

Monday, October 5, 2009

How do we choose between two equally morally compelling answers to a dilemma?

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We must help each other grow stronger

Monday, January 19, 2009

Yesterday, Saketh brought up an interesting point — one that affects us in many ways, on different levels, every day of our lives. What is our duty? What is the right thing to do? Especially in college, these questions are often escalated; as a freshman, college is my first exposure to the realization that the [...]

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What is Swadharma?

Saturday, January 17, 2009

In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna, the divine avatar of Vishnu, tells Arjuna:
śreyān svadharmo viguṇaḥ paradharmāt svanuṣṭhitāt
svadharme nidhanaṃ śreyaḥ paradharmo bhayāvahaḥ (BG 3.35)
One’s own duty (swadharma), though it may be worthless, is better than someone else’s duty executed perfectly. Destruction in one’s own duty is good — someone else’s duty, on the other hand, is dangerous.
But this [...]

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