Shloka 8
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
परित्राणाय साधूनां: विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्ः । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām | dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge ||
साधुओं की रक्षा के लिये, दुष्कर्मियों के विनाश के लिये और धर्म की स्थापना के लिये मैं युग-युग में प्रकट होता हूँ।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that divine manifestation has an ethical purpose: safeguarding the virtuous, curbing destructive wrongdoing, and restoring dharma when it declines—reaffirming moral order as a recurring necessity across ages.
In the midst of the Kurukṣetra context, a divine speaker explains the reason for appearing in the world: intervention is not arbitrary but aimed at protecting the righteous community, ending oppressive wrongdoing, and re-establishing dharma whenever it is threatened.