“From Dharma there does not merely follow happiness; Dharma is itself happiness.”
When, in return for some good deed of ours, we meet with sorrow, or when someone finds pleasure in a wicked deed, the mind surely wonders what the use is of doing good, of walking the path of Dharma. But does a wicked soul ever know true peace? Distrust drives him all his life long.
Chapter 14 of 35 — a single teaching, 2 min in total.
The Mahabharata is less a story with a moral than a very long argument about how to act. Its characters are given impossible situations and are judged not on the outcome but on the quality of their reasoning and the honesty of their motives.
Krishna's role throughout is the counsellor who refuses easy answers. He does not remove the difficulty; he changes what the person is able to bring to it.