Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Dharma

धर्म · dharma

duty; what is right; the order that holds things together

From a root meaning 'to hold up'. Dharma is what keeps a person, a family and the world from falling apart: law, duty, justice and one's own right way of living, all at once. The Gita's first word is dharma, and its whole argument begins from Arjuna's doubt about what his dharma is.

Appears in

Bhagavad Gita 1.1 · Bhagavad Gita 2.31 · Bhagavad Gita 3.35 · Bhagavad Gita 4.7 · Bhagavad Gita 18.47 · Bhagavad Gita 18.66