Dhrama / Religion
The word
dharma and religion are seems to be same and as we all accepted the meaning of
the word as same in our daily life but in real it is not correct, both have
different meaning in their own . The science of spiritualities developed first
by Indian (Bharat before) Rishies long time ago to this mankind that’s why in
India we have so many words in our spiritual system which till now we don’t have
exact meaning in english or in other languages may be some can find in latin
language but many are absent there also. That’s why so many Hindi/Sanskrit
words are accepted as it is in oxford dictionary
Etymology
Dhram is Sanskrit word and is drived from dhatu
shabd Dhri or dri which means dharan karna to adopt /to hold /
to keep
Now here we
have questions in our mind – what to adopt? What is to hold ? and what is to
keep ?why to adopt , why to hold ? why to keep?
Religion is
English word derived from latin word religare or religio which means to bind
And here we
have question like – what is to bind , whom to bind and why to bind?
(Well to
bind it feels something have bondage and no one want to have bondage every one
wants to be free , how it would feel if we say well come here and you have to
bind yourself with this of that because we are free will being and binding
ourself is sounds like bondage . or it is force to bind )
So dhram is
not any connection to religion in any sense .and I will use term dhram instead
of religion here . so dhram is not for any hindu , christian, muslim or budhist
but it is common to all human or mankind
before now and in future too. Dhram is humanity and living with the nature
around us. Dhram is rule and law or injunctions in order that we may not
degenerate and not get pain n suffering from bodily , mentally and spiritually
form . Dhram is duty of being to the
nature and surrounding for the benefit of ourself , society and mankind to
attain bliss and to know the true nature of self. And by which our sorrows
,pain and misery vanish and attain bliss n get god.
Now
question arise where are those rules n duties come from and who made it ? well
the answer to this is very simple , human is incomplete because human are made as and image of thee, so human
is incomplete in his own and have limitations of everything like his senses ,
body and mind , even human cant compete animals who are consider as lower being
to human . So what ever human will make it would be incomplete that’s why
things needed to be amended on time to time which are made by human . eg
advance versions of apple phone , aircrafts , and other technology etc . So
human is not cabable to give any rule n law which was same before now n in
future too . now who made those law n duties ? they are given by god itself .
and promoted by son of god n other saintly and divine people
One verse
in Sanskrit from classics text says:
आहारनिद्राभयमैथुनानि सामान्यमेतत्पशुभिर्नराणाम् ।
धर्मो हि तेषामधिको विशेषो धर्मेण हीनाः पशुभिस्समानाः ॥
’Eating,
sleeping, fearing and mating – human beings have these in common with
animals. What distinguishes them from animals is dharma. Those
devoid of dharma are no better than animals’
The Supreme Importance of Dharma in Sustaining the World
Decline of dharma and ascendancy of adharma ( the
opposite of dharma) will result in such chaotic conditions and destabilization
on the Earth that the Lord Himself comes down in human form to re-establish the
reign of Dharma. Lord Krishna says :
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे ॥
’whenever there is decline of dharma and ascendancy of adharma,
I take birth Myself on this Earth to establish the rule of Dharma.
In every Yuga I incarnate myself to protect the virtuous and destroy the
wicked.’
Sankara’s definition of Dharma
The first Sankaracharya defines dharma in the following
words:
अभ्युदयनिःश्रेयसकारणो चोदनालक्षणो धर्मः
That which
the Sruti (the Vedas) prompts us to do and which will result in our
material and spiritual advancement is dharma.
Dhram is to accept, to adopt, to keep, or to follow the gods instructions and to know
god and to love god. Dhram is that which can not be separated from that thing.
Eg. We say dhram of fire is to burn itself n to burn other things and gives
light here we can not separate light or burn from fire.Dhram is Sanatan ( eternal) so our dhram is Sanatam Dhram and now it become hindu dhram
According to Sankhya Darshan – dhram is that which protect
is from three fold of suffering that’s disease , unhappiness and ignorance
Here our classics don’t talk about love and texts not mix up
love with dhram because if we talk about love we will look for love only and
keep searching so text only talk about keep or hold of follow such rules and
law to make our life get rid of all kind of pain n suffering and get bliss and
god . So if we do this what remain is that is only love , love comes
automatically no need to search. This is the greatness of Indian system of
thought our rishis went deeper n subtler.
Now in modern world dhram become religion and has taken new
shape and it comes in hand of community because of hate n jealousy among them
and every community has their own religion and even in same community have more
sub religions and they all make their own interpretation according to their own
benefits and forget the origin sense. That is why now theres no love in society
even some religion talks only love . Religion never be hindu chrstian muslim
jewish budhist etc.. like the heart of human is same in the body for everyone
heart never be hindu muslim christian budhist every human heart work same beats
n pump the blood
…..contd.