In plain words
“Speak Satya,” “Practise Dharma”: from beginningless time the Upaniṣads have been raising their voices and crying these words out to our Bhārata culture. Today people have forgotten the essence of these sacred words and have moved Dharma into talk. This is the first step in the decline of Dharma. It has given up what must be done and come down to talking; that itself may even be called Adharma. What is not practised has little strength. Just as the crocodile's strength is in the water, the strength of the dharmas lies only in practising them; in talking about them they have no strength worth the name. Satya has its strength only in the speaking; in the practising it has less. As for strength, there are two kinds here: animal strength and the strength of Dharma. For a human being, the strength of Dharma is strength; animal strength does not even count as strength.
Take Bhīma. His strength was bodily strength and no more, so it must be regarded as animal strength. Because Dharmaja stood beside him, his strength became the strength of Dharma. As long as Dharmaja is at his side, Bhīma's strength is the strength of Dharma, not animal strength. It was the strength of Dharma that protected the Pāṇḍavas. Had they had animal strength alone, they would have been defeated at the very start. Think what would have become of the Pāṇḍavas without Dharmaja, however many strengths they had! The Kauravas had every kind of strength, did they not? Then why did they perish? They had no strength of Dharma. That is why all their strengths turned into animal strength. On the very day that Dharmaja, the strength of Dharma, and Bhīma were driven off to the forests, Adharma entered the Kaurava kingdom. So now the strengths of Dharma that are in the forests must be brought into the villages and towns. Only then will the world be prosperous, and peace and wealth grow. We must escape the grip of the rule of Adharma and enter the rule of Dharma. Effort is needed to pull out weeds only to protect the crop; no effort at all is needed to make useless grass grow. In the same way, every effort now must go into one thing: bringing the natural Dharma, which is the true crop, into practice.