Shloka 53
Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति जैमिने ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजत्यसौ ॥
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati jaimine | abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṃ sṛjaty asau ||
اے جیمِنی، جب جب دھرم میں زوال اور اَدھرم کا ابھار ہوتا ہے، تب وہ پروردگار خود ہی ظہور فرماتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Dharma is presented as a cosmic equilibrium: when it weakens and adharma becomes dominant, the Divine does not remain indifferent but actively restores order by manifesting in an appropriate form. Ethically, it implies that moral disorder has consequences and that protection of righteousness is a recurring, trans-historical principle.
Primarily aligns with Vaṃśānucarita / protective interventions within historical cycles (the Purāṇic narration of divine actions across ages), and secondarily supports Manvantara/Age-cycle thinking by implying repeated restorations across recurring time periods.
The phrase ātmānaṃ sṛjati (“creates/manifests Himself”) can be read as the Supreme’s self-disclosure: the transcendent becomes immanent without loss of transcendence. Symbolically, it points to the emergence of higher consciousness within the world (and within the individual) whenever disorder (adharma) overtakes inner and outer life.