Those who are righteous, fear sinful actions. And they perform virtuous deeds. That is dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And those who are unrighteous, do not fear sinful actions. And they do not perform virtuous deeds. That is adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → They like the association of sadhus. Those who are righteous. Those who are unrighteous, Maharaj has written this very well, they like the association of true sadhus. Do unrighteous people associate with sadhus or not? Huh? They do. They must be doing so. If they find sadhus of their own liking, they associate with them. They do not like true ones. If they are true, unrighteous people do not like them, because they do not want to do what is right and want to do what is wrong, so only those kinds of sadhus approve of them, others do not approve of them. This is a big problem abroad. Devotees come, and say, "Swami, we have a liquor store." "Come to inaugurate it." The store. So many, even approve of it, saying, "Come on, only this works here, there is no other way here, so set aside a donation and give it to us." Meaning, your liquor business also becomes faultless. So they approved of a sinful action. Now, are they true sadhus, in this there is righteous and unrighteous, but are these called true sadhus or false ones? If they approve of sinful actions directly or indirectly, then they are not called true sadhus. And those who approve of sinful actions get along with unrighteous people. Unrighteous people and those who perform sinful actions, they all get along. They might not perform sinful actions directly, but if they encourage such sinful businesses, even then they should not be known as righteous. Then Maharaj said something very beautiful, that many times a person might not be performing sinful actions. And they might be performing virtuous deeds. Even then, they do not like the association of true sadhus. True sadhus here means they do not like the association of righteous sadhus. Like that. Then what should be understood? Perhaps they perform virtuous deeds with some other motive, whatever it may be. There is some other selfish motive behind performing virtuous deeds, only then would they do so. In the Mahabharat, the outer forms of Karna and others were of virtuous deeds. Karna is considered charitable, isn't he? Duryodhan is considered unrighteous. But generally, on the face of it, no one calls Karna unrighteous. On the face of it, no one says Karna was unrighteous. Duryodhan was unrighteous. If Karna was righteous, then he should have got along with Yudhishthir, shouldn't he? But he did not get along with Yudhishthir. But he got along with Duryodhan, who was unrighteous. And he himself was righteous. So what should be understood from that? He himself might not perform any unrighteous actions at all and might perform righteous actions. But if there is someone else who is righteous, he does not match with them. And if someone is unrighteous, he matches with them. So should he be known as righteous or unrighteous? He himself does not perform unrighteous actions. Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Adharma Adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → So dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And one is from within. Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Many times, somehow, they might have set up an external form of dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → So the outer form that looks like dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → People get misled in that itself. No one gets misled by those who are straightforward. It can happen that they perform righteous actions externally and love adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → So many times it also happens that the outer form is related to sinful actions, and they love the righteous? Should they be called righteous or what? They are called half-righteous. They are called half-righteous. The former cannot be called so at all, but this one can be called half-righteous. Maharaj has said this in the 14th Vachanamrut of Vartal, hasn't He? Yes. Maharaj said. Ramchandra, Vaghmadiya Ramchandraji asked a question, AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details