The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t3.3

c14.s8.t3.3

In Rāmdās's doctrine of *ānanda-vana-bhūvana* which has been exquisitely put in as the fourth hemistich in every verse we are indeed getting a seventeenth century (?) paraphrase, adaptation or application of the celebrated *Gītā* doctrine of *yugāntara*. The great transformation, transvaluation of values, or remaking of epochs is initiated by God Kriṣṇa, as declared to Arjuna, whenever corruption creeps in into *dharma* (law, order and justice) and ascendancy is enjoyed by *adharma* (disorder, vile practices, negation of law, justice and morals). Kriṣṇa takes shape in human form under those calamitous conditions in order to protect the *sādhu* (the good, the just and the honest) and to annihilate the *duṣkrita* (the culprits, the evil-doers and the ruffians) as well as to re-establish *dharma*, i.e., law, order, justice, morality, virtue and allied desirables.