What is the correlation between love and righteousness, and what are these very important qualities to be cultivated? Bhagawan clearly explains to us today.

The outpouring of Prema (love) is Dharma (righteousness). One who understands Dharma will foster Prema. A person who develops love for God can follow Dharma easily. Dharma and Prema are twins. But man today has lost both these qualities. Life without Dharma and Prema is barren like a wasteland. At the time of the Mahabharata war, Duryodhana went to his mother, Gandhari, prostrated at her feet and beseeched her blessings for victory in the war. But Gandhari knew that Duryodhana did not follow the path of Dharma in his life. So, she did not give him her blessings for victory in the war in spite of Duryodhana’s pleadings for it. Her only blessing was: “Where there is Dharma, there shall be victory.” She did not say that he would be victorious. Later, Duryodhana went to his preceptor Dronacharya to seek his blessings. Dronacharya also said: “Where there is Dharma, there is God; where there is God, there is victory. God loves the devotee who follows the dictates of Dharma.”