Verse
श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् ।स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः ॥
Better is one’s own law of works, svadharma, though in itself faulty, than an alien law well wrought out; death in one’s own law of being is better, perilous is it to follow an alien law.
Gītā 3·35