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Empower Yourself With Responsibility

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM svadharmamapi cāvekṣya na vikampitumarhasi dharmyāddhi yuddhācchreyo'nyat kṣatriyasya na vidyate

You should look at your own responsibility [svadharma] as a kṣatriya. There is nothing higher for a kṣatriya than a righteous war You ought not to hesitate

Svadharma - Fight you are a Ksatriya!

yadṛcchayā copapannaṁ svargadvāramapāvṛtam sukhinaḥ kṣatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddhamīdṛśam

O Pārtha, happy indeed are the kṣatriyas who are called to fight in such a battle without seeking. This opens for them the door to heaven

By fighting as your own responsibility demands, you earn merits and go to heaven.

atha cettvamimaṁ dharmyaṁ saṅgrāmaṁ na kariṣyasi tataḥ svadharmaṁ kīrtiṁ ca hitvā pāpamavāpsyasi

If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will incur sin having abandoned your own responsibility [svadharma], and you will lose your reputation