Dharma
The cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order. In the Gita, dharma encompasses duty, righteousness, moral law, and the natural order of the universe. Arjuna's dilemma is fundamentally about dharma.
Verses Mentioning This Concept
7.11 Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in (all) beings, I am the desire unopposed to Dharma, O …
9.3 Those who have no faith in this Dharma (knowledge of the Self), O Parantapa (Arjuna), return to the path of this world of death …
12.20 They verily who follow this immortal Dharma (law or doctrine) as described above, endowed with faith, regarding Me as their supreme goal, they, the …
14.27 For I am the abode of Brahman, the immortal and the immutable, of everlasting Dharma and of absolute bliss.
18.31 That, by which one wrongly understands Dharma and Adharma and also what ought to be done and what ought not to be done that …
18.32 That, which, enveloped in darkness, sees Adharma as Dharma and all things perverted that intellect, O Arjuna, is Tamasic (dark).