Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 4, verse 8
Completes 4.7 by giving the purpose of the divine descent: to protect the good and re-establish dharma, age after age.
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परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṃ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām |dharmasaṃsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge ||
To protect the good, to put an end to wrongdoers, and to firmly set up dharma again, I come into being age after age.
सज्जनों की रक्षा के लिए, दुष्टों के विनाश के लिए और धर्म को फिर से स्थापित करने के लिए मैं युग-युग में प्रकट होता हूँ।
सज्जनांच्या रक्षणासाठी, दुष्टांच्या विनाशासाठी आणि धर्माची पुन्हा स्थापना करण्यासाठी मी युगायुगात प्रकट होतो.
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परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises, Arjuna, at that time I bring myself into being.
4.9जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ।
Whoever truly understands my divine birth and actions is not born again after leaving the body, Arjuna. That person comes to me.
The Yoga of Knowledge and Renouncing Action
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