Core tenet of Hinduism
Dharma sustains the cosmos; to live rightly is to live in accord with it.
Order is not imposed on the world — it is the world; conduct, ritual, and law participate in it.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Dharma descends from Vedic rta — the order that keeps the cosmos turning — but lands on the person as svadharma: the duty of one's own station, stage of life, and situation. It is deliberately indexical; the Gita's crisis is exactly a man caught between two dharmas that both bind.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Better one's own dharma done imperfectly than another's dharma done well.
Bhagavad Gita 3:35
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Ritual sustains the order of the world.
Vedic Religion
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Vesak.
Buddhism · rite
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Paryushana.
Jainism · rite
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The commandments are how the covenant is lived.
Judaism
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The Eucharist.
Christianity · rite
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Salat — the five daily prayers.
Islam · rite
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