In plain words
And yet another says too that Dharma is the very thing that came into being not merely to protect, to lead men along the fitting path and to give them the security their future needs, but further to awaken even those who let Dharma wear down a little. ‘Dharma yeva hatohanti’, that is, Dharma is the very thing that destroys whoever sets out to destroy Dharma; and ‘dharmorakṣati rakṣitaḥ’, that is, the duty of Dharma is just this, to protect whoever protects it: in these words too the special greatness of this Dharma had to be made known. ‘Yatodharmaḥ tato vijayaḥ’, that is, where Dharma is, there victory is won: in these words too the sacredness of this Dharma had to be made known. So this Dharma is a distinguished and divine principle: many elders have brought out many kinds of meaning for this sacred word Dharma, and through them have proclaimed and taught to the whole world too that our Bhārata is bound by the rope called the thread of Dharma. Today, in the modern age, people have taken to using the name duty for the sacred Dharma, whose meaning is whole and unbroken. Duty: the meaning of this duty is only something bound to one person, to one time, to one country, to one situation, and to one cause too. But Dharma is what imparts a divinity that does not change in the three times, the three worlds, or even in the three guṇas. There is room to say that Dharma is just that which reveals the nature of the inner Ātma, the very own form of the inner Ātma. A principle that sets up no difference of any kind among the antaḥkaraṇa, the workings of the mind and the gross body, but brings all three into harmony: that is the principle of Dharma's power.
The Heart Itself Is the Birthplace of Dharma
The place where this Dharma is born is none other than our heart. We may also say that Dharma is the very action carried out with the pure feelings that come forth from this place, the heart.