Lord Krishna
Divine TeacherThe Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.
Speaking: Chapter 4, Verse 8
Verse 8
The Yoga of Knowledge and Action
To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.
Context & Meaning
Krishna takes birth in every age for three purposes: protecting the good, destroying evil, and reestablishing dharma. This is the threefold mission of every divine descent.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainBal Gangadhar Tilak
Gita Rahasya — B.G. TilakVerses 4:7–8 together form the clearest statement of the Avatar doctrine. Tilak emphasised in Gita Rahasya that "yuge yuge" — in every age — implies the Divine is never absent from history. When human effort to uphold dharma falls short, a higher power supplements it. This is not fatalism but a covenant: human effort and divine grace work together.