Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 4, verse 7
One of the best-known verses in Hindu tradition, understood as Krishna's promise to appear whenever dharma is in decline.
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यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānirbhavati bhārata |abhyutthānamadharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmyaham ||
Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises, Arjuna, at that time I bring myself into being.
हे भारत, जब-जब धर्म की हानि होती है और अधर्म बढ़ता है, तब-तब मैं स्वयं को प्रकट करता हूँ।
हे भारता, जेव्हा जेव्हा धर्माला ग्लानी येते आणि अधर्म वाढतो, तेव्हा तेव्हा मी स्वतःला प्रकट करतो.
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यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन् ।
Though I am unborn and my being never perishes, and though I am Lord of all beings, I take birth by my own power, working through my own nature.
4.8परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
To protect the good, to put an end to wrongdoers, and to firmly set up dharma again, I come into being age after age.
The Yoga of Knowledge and Renouncing Action
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