Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 49-4. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, September 17, 2022. 07:00. Discourse 49: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Types of Understanding, Determination and Happiness-4. ======================================================================== Yayā dharmam adharmaṁ ca kāryaṁ cākāryam eva ca, ayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī (18.31): A rajasic person considers a wrong place as a proper place, a wrong time as a proper time, a wrong circumstance as a proper circumstance, and mixes up the concepts of dharma and adharma. Many people do wrong actions under the impression that they are doing some dharmic activity, because the idea of dharma is not clear in their mind; it is localised, politicised. Geographical, historical, communal, religious and political circumstances may vitiate the very concept of what is good and bad. We cannot decide what is ultimate...