Difficulty of Being Good

Beautiful lines from Gurcharan Das' book titled "Difficulty of being good".

Could one depend on dharma to protect one in this uncertain world? If so, how does a person go about finding dharma? In a life and death debate with the Yaksha, a tree spirit, who controls the waters of a lake, thristy Yudhishthira is asked this very question. The right answer will save him and his brothers; the wrong answer will mean their death. He tells the Yaksha that in seeking dharma "reason is limited use for it is without foundation; neither are the sacred texts helpful as they are all odds with one another; nor is there a single safe whose opinion could be considered authoritative. The truth about dharma is hidden in a cave."

For my reading of Mahabharatha, and my search of dharma, these beautiful lines set the mood. I am passing into the cave...