Chapter 4 Overview
Verse 4.7
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदाऽऽत्मानं सृजाम्यहम्।।4.7।।
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛijāmyaham
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 7
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and an increase of unrighteousness, O Arjuna, then I manifest Myself.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: whenever righteousness declines and unrighteousness rises, a corrective force appears, framing moral decay as something that eventually triggers its own correction.
In life: organizations, families, and communities that drift too far from their stated values tend to eventually face a reckoning, external or internal.
Teaching: don't wait for the crisis point, address small ethical drift early, in yourself or your environment, rather than waiting for it to force a correction later.
yadā yadāwhenever
hicertainly
dharmasyaof righteousness
glāniḥdecline
bhavatiis
bhārataArjun, descendant of Bharat
abhyutthānamincrease
adharmasyaof unrighteousness
tadāat that time
ātmānamself
sṛijāmimanifest
ahamI
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
4.7 यदा यदा whenever? हि surely? धर्मस्य of righteousness? ग्लानिः decline? भवति is? भारत O Bharata? अभ्युत्थानम् rise? अधर्मस्य of unrighteousness? तदा then? आत्मानम् Myself? सृजामि manifest? अहम् I.Commentary Dharma is that which sustains and holds together. There is no proper eivalen for this term in the English language. That which helps a man to attain to Moksha or salvation is Dharma. That which makes a man irreligious or unrighteous is Adharma. That which elevates a man and helps him reach the goal of life and attain knowledge is Dharma that which drags him and hurls him down in the abyss of worldliness and ignorance is Adharma.