The Basic Dharma
There is no better pious activity (dharma) than helping others and giving happiness to others. There is no sinful activity worse than inflicting suffering on others. This is the verdict of all the Vedas and Puranas. Those who inflict pain on others have to suffer the negative karmic reactions in the current and future lives. Thus, they ruin their next lives. Those who give happiness to people around them receive the positive fruits of their pious actions.
Bhakti Yoga
God (Bhagavan Ram or Krishna) as Yama (The God of Death) dispenses the fruit of their good and evil actions. Realizing this, those who are supremely clever adore Bhagavan to get out of the cycle of birth and death. They take refuge in Bhagavan and try their best to give happiness to others seeing them as part of their beloved Bhagavan. In this way, they transcend the cycle of birth and death and attain the Supreme Abode.
The Absolute Perspective (Jnana Yoga)
The good and evil in this world are all product of maya (illusion). Ultimately, they don't exist. The greatest knowledge is to see this world as the dream and therefore, to not attach any importance to the good and evil in this world.
(From Ram Charit Manas Uttarkand Doha 41)
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