“The Mahabharata reminds us that it is natural and desirable for human beings to want happiness and pleasure as they seek to be good. Kama is one of the legitimate goals of human life. The Christian denial of physical pleasure,… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“The Mahabharata reminds us that it is natural and desirable for human beings to want happiness and pleasure as they seek to be good.… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“people do, in fact, act against their moral convictions and this is an unhappy fact about ourselves’.” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“ Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma ” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“The principle of competition is, as Hesiod pointed out long ago, built in the very roots of the world; there is something in the… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
