Quotations from the Divine Discourses of Bhagvan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha

 

The arena of life is raised on four pillars: Dharma, Artha, Kama

and Moksha. They sustain and support. When the arena loses two and

struggles to stand on the remaining two, viz. Artha and Kama,

naturally anxiety, pretence, grief and greed afflict mankind. Each

pillar must cooperate and complement the parts that the other three

play. Dharma must sublimate Artha, that is to say, through moral

means alone should the means of living be obtained. Artha must be

won through Dharma and used in Dharma. Kama must be primarily for

Moksha; that is to say, desire must be directed to liberation from

bondage, not to the forging of new chains or the addition of further

links in the chain of birth and death. The first of the four, Dharma

must interpenterate and strengthen the next two, so that truth may be

attended. Devoid of the first and the last, mankind is reduced to

the level of beasts and birds.

 

 

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