In plain words
we must grasp only from the Vedas themselves — that is, we must take the Vedas as our refuge. Karma is the practice of Dharma.
Knowing which things ought to be done and which ought not to be done, and conducting oneself accordingly — this is the very essence of our Upanishads. "Speak the truth, practise Dharma; look upon your mother as a god, your father as a god, your teacher as a god, and your guest as a god; never swerve from truth, never swerve from Dharma" — these are the positive injunctions. And then come the prohibitions: "those ways alone are to be followed and no others; whatever conduct of ours is well-regarded, that alone is to be revered by you, and no other."
As the saying goes, 'As the king, so are his people'; the king himself became a student, gave the financial assistance others needed for their studies, and turned the gurukula into a flourishing abode of Vedic learning. To protect the Vedas means, in effect, to protect those who know the Vedas. In today's modern society, providing employment opportunities to Veda-scholars, just as is done for scholars in other fields, ought to be a matter of the first importance — but this is simply not happening. "Dharma protects those who protect it": if we protect Dharma, Dharma itself will protect us. Today, the very study of the Vedas has come to be portrayed as merely the occupation of those too poor to do anything else, and has fallen into a state of deep decline. In fact, it is the very teachers who have studied the Vedas who have dragged the Veda down into a field of commerce, selling it for money; and it is the very best of the scholars who know the Veda's meaning who now act in direct contradiction to what practical teaching demands. They put the Veda to use as nothing more than a trade to fill the stomach. This alone is the root cause of unrighteousness and of the world's unrest.
If such people are firmly counselled and brought back to follow these Vedic injunctions along the proper path, only then does the world's welfare follow; if not, ruin alone is inevitable. From that day to this, the Bharatiya Paramartha Vahini has been saying, in many ways: 'These Vedic injunctions