Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita

Dharma is what holds the world together — your role, your duty, the path that is yours to walk. The Gita doesn't hand dharma to Arjuna. It helps him recognise his own.

• 2.18What is truly you cannot be destroyed, so duty remains.
• 2.34A honored life can be wounded more by shame than by death.
• 2.40Even a tiny start on the right path protects you from fear.
• 3.10Life flourishes when duty becomes mutual support.
• 3.11Your duty nourishes the whole, and the whole nourishes you back.
• 3.16A life detached from duty empties itself from within.
• 4.7When dharma collapses, the divine steps into history.
• 9.2The highest truth is both profound and simple to live.
• 16.9False vision turns strength into destruction.
• 16.24Impulse cannot judge action; a higher standard must.
• 18.7Right action should not be abandoned just because it feels difficult.
• 18.41Your rightful work comes from your nature, not imitation.
• 18.44Every nature has its own rightful work.
• 18.45Fulfillment comes from living your own work, not someone else’s.