The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 6.4. Swami Krishnananda
------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 16, , 2020. 7:11. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Duty -4. --------------------------------------------- 1. There is a fifth aspect which is generally not mentioned in the commentaries on scriptures. This is what is known as the adhidharma—the Law, the Righteousness of the Kingdom of God, as we generally call it. The Kingdom of God is the adhidaiva, the principal spiritual Reality. The righteousness thereof is the law that operates in the universe. The Vedas speak of this righteousness as the satya and the rita: the Absolute law and the cosmical operative law. As in the constitution of a democratic republic there is a super-departmental power vested with the President, while there is a departmental law operating through the Prime Minister, one not completely dissociated from the other and yet one having a significance of its own independent of the other, likewise, is the satya and the rita spoken of in the Ve...