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which is Mine own, yet I am born through My own Power.^[1] (6)

 

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदाऽऽत्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥ ७ ॥

Whenever there is decay of righteousness,^[2] O Bhârata, and there is exaltation of unrighteousness,^[3] then I Myself come forth; (7)

 

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥ ८ ॥

For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness,^[2] I am born from age to age. (8)

 

जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ।

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1. Mâyâ, the power of thought that produces form, which is transient and therefore unreal compared with the eternal Reality; hence Mâyâ comes to be taken as the power of producing illusion.
2. Dharma.
3. Adharma, the opposite of dharma, all that is disorderly, against the nature of things.