Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 122

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action He went back to his village and saw his people using the well as before. So as a penance he went on fast. When people asked him for the reason, he told them how some Muslims had climbed upon the low wall around the well, and how they had also poured defiled water and cast a piece of partly-eaten bread into it. Stunned, the people of the village asked, “What shall we do now?” The Brahmin replied, “Nothing, because we have lost our dharm.” People were usually not educated in those days. No one knows how long since women and the, so called “untouchables” had been deprived of the right to learn. The Vaishya were convinced that making money was their only dharm. The Kshatriya were absorbed in the laudatory songs of minstrels. No sooner did their master’s sword flash than there was lightning and the throne of Delhi began to shake. If honour came from muscle power, the Kshatriya thought, why should they study and learn? What had they, weilders of arms, to do with dharm.