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The Bhagavad Gita

In Our Time: Religion

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What Is Righteous Darma?

The tension between these two that you have to resolve in your own life. This is one of the reasons why it carried so strongly and carried through the centuries, had so many commentaries written about ites. The giter's first verse starts with darma shetri kuruksetri, on the field of darma, on theField of Kuru its. And eventually, as ram has indicated, it's all about how to be in the world without being off the world. It's a sort of reconciliation of these two contrasting ideals - renouncing action but forming action.

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