Bhagavad Gita   Nainam chhindanti shastrani Weapons cannot cut the Spirit, Nainam dahati pavakah Nor can fire burn it, Na chainam claydayantya po Water cannot wet it, Na shoshayati Marutah Nor can wind dry it.   Karmanye’vadhi – karaste Your right is to the work only, Ma phaleshu kadachanam But never the fruit thereof, Ma karmaphala – heturbhuhu Be not attached to the fruit, Ma te sang’ostu karmani Neither to inaction.   Yada yada hi dharmasya Whenever dharma declines, Glanirbhavati Bharata O scion of Bharata, Abhyuthanaya dharmasya And evil prevails, Tadatmanam srujamyaham I incarnate Myself.   Paritranaya sadhunam To protect the virtuous, Vinashayacha dushkrutam To destroy the evil – doers, Dharma saonstha – panarthaya And to establish dharma in the hearts of men, Sambhavami yuge yuge I am born from age to age.       From ‘The Mahabharata’ by Veda Vyasa