In plain words
Why should you torment your fellow men, if you never stray from Dharma? Is this not the inner meaning of the Bhārata? It is the word as it is, the word now being told.
Dharma is, as it is said, dhārayatīti dharmaḥ. Besides this, the Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas and Purāṇas have gone on describing it in many ways. But the oneness of the three guṇas alone is Brahman. The oneness of mind, speech and body alone is Brahman. The Proper study of mankind is man. Thoughts, words, actions: the harmony of these three is itself Dharma. Whoever takes this sacred Dharma into his heart, for him everything is victory. Duryodhana, wicked and evil-minded, made ready for battle and went into the inner palace to bow to his mother. He bowed to his mother: "Mother! Bless me, so that victory comes," he asked. But Gāndhārī did not do so. "Yato dharmas tato jayaḥ," she said. "Though you are my son, it is Dharma alone that will win victory for you," and so that mother blessed him. Duryodhana went to Droṇācārya, his guru. This Droṇācārya too: "Yato dharmas tato kṛṣṇaḥ. Yato kṛṣṇas tato jayaḥ," he said. Where Dharma is, there Kṛṣṇa is. Where Kṛṣṇa is, there victory comes, he said. The Bhagavad Gītā too began with Dharma and closed with victory. Dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre … In the first śloka, the first word, it began with Dharma. The very last śloka:
Where Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of yoga, is, where Pārtha, the bearer of the bow, is, there are fortune, victory, prosperity and steadfast right conduct: that is my conviction.
Where Kṛṣṇa is, where Dharma is, wherever the two are found together in one form, there is victory. So only when we begin with Dharma can we win victory. Victory itself will choose us.
This life of man today is sunk in three kinds of sorrow. They are of three kinds: ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika and ādhidaivika. Ādhyātmika means the diseases that belong to the body. And the diseases of the mind. Above all, it is the diseases of the mind that keep tormenting the body beyond measure. Today people are building rest houses for the body, but there are no fit houses anywhere for the rest of the mind. The only rest houses for the mind are temples. That is why: Deho devālaya prokto jīvo devas sanātanaḥ.