Righteous living
Dharma
The path of righteousness — right action in each role of life.
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Read
Sit with a few of these lines from scripture — read slowly, more than once.
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Reflect
Let one of the stories below settle the teaching into the heart.
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Live
Choose the harder right over the easier wrong once today.
📜 Read — verses on righteous living
Bhagavad Gita · Bhagavad Gita 2.33
…fight this righteous war, then having abandoned your own duty and reputation…
Bhagavad Gita · Bhagavad Gita 2.31
…for there is nothing higher for a Kshatriya than a righteous war.
Bhagavad Gita · Bhagavad Gita 4.7
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and an increase of unrighteousness…
Thirukkural · Kural 31
…what is there that is more profitable than Righteousness?
Thirukkural · Kural 130
…Righteousness pilgrimageth to his home in order to have a look at…
Bhagavad Gita · Bhagavad Gita 9.31
Soon he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace; O Arjuna, proclaim thou…
Bhagavad Gita · Bhagavad Gita 4.8
…and for the establishment of righteousness, I am born in every age.
Thirukkural · Kural 36
Say not in thy heart, I shall be righteous by and bye…
📖 Reflect — stories
Irandām Thiruvandhādhi
The second of the three. Where Poigai lit a lamp of the elements, Bhūtham Āzhvār lights a lamp of love itself: “Love is the vessel, longing the ghee, the melting mind the wick — I lit this bright lamp for the Lord.” His hundred linked verses sing of a God who can only be reached through the heart's own warmth.
🪔 Live — your practice
Choose the harder right over the easier wrong once today.
Continue your path
A guided path for reflection — the verses are drawn live from the scripture library by theme. Follow the guidance of your sangat or teacher for practice.