What is the Dharma and its importance in any religion.? George Bernard Shaw once said that common sense is not common in ordinary people. Today I feel that true is how this pronouncement. And again as humans show no sign of possessing virtue more preciada-el common sense. I have to remind my readers the extent to which have denigrated ourselves as human beings. We are ashamed to say that we are the most intelligent animals on the face of the Earth. We are only animals now, or something worse than an animal. Senseless slaughter of innocents in the name of religion, the excessive use of our natural resources, cutting of trees and cleaning of forests only to feed someone's greed, all this has led us to a threshold of extinction. But had we felt a little deeper in our I would have found the answers of life a harmonious, happy and a healthier life. The sky would have been here in the earth itself. The main essence of all these is DHARMA and its presence in all major world religion. What is dharma?
Dharma is derived from the Sanskrit root meaning "dhr" hold, take, have, hold. The word dharma refers to the defending or holds the universe. Human society, for example, is sustained and confirmed by the dharma by its members.
(dhar, "defend"). Rules of order, the custom and ethics, adherence to which is necessary to maintain order in society. In the Upanishads, dharma is mainly the knowledge of how to achieve Brahman. Vedic Scriptures describes dharma as natural universal laws whose observance enables humans to be happy and pleased and saved from degradation and suffering. Dharma is the moral law combined with spiritual discipline that guides his life. Atharva Veda describes dharma symbolically: Prithivim dharmana dhritam, i.e., "this world is confirmed by dharma anything that helps human beings to reach God dharma and anything that impedes humans reach God is adharma." According to the Purana extensively, just life or life in a dharmic way has four aspects: austerity (tap), purity (shauch), compassion (daya) and truthfulness (satya); and adharmic or wicked life has three vices: pride (ahankar), contact (sangh) and poisoning (madya).
Manusmriti, written by the ancient Sage Manu, prescribes 10 rules essential for the holding of the dharma: patience (dhriti), forgiveness (kshama), self-control (dama), honesty (asteya), piety or holiness (shauch), control of the senses (indraiya-nigrah), reason (dhi), knowledge or learning (vidya), truthfulness (satya) and absence of wrath (krodha). Manu also writes: "non-violence, truth, not lust, purity of body and mind, control of the senses are the essence of the dharma". Therefore dharmic laws govern not only to the individual but that everyone in society. Any other religion say something different from these?
The purpose of the dharma is not only achieving a Union of the soul with the Supreme reality, also suggests a code of conduct that is intended to ensure that worldly pleasures and supreme happiness. Rishi Kanda has defined dharma in Vaisesika as "confers worldly pleasures and leads to supreme happiness".
Dharma is an Eastern term whose Western equivalents might include the morality, ethics, virtue, righteousness and purity. Unfortunately, most of these terms are clearly fashion in our modern culture. However, is Dharma which is the seeker of the truth can achieve the happiness that he is looking for. When Moses came down from the 10 commandments from Mount Sinai, he taught the Israelites that Dharma was the divine law they (who loved truth) aspired could free themselves from their masters in the Egyptian slave (the basis of wishes) and reach the promised land (spiritual liberation).
"Although Mohammed led his followers in a bloody, terrible war to defend the law of Islam (Dharma) since the murder of children and mysoginistic idolaters, described the physical war as the ' minor Jihad".The "greater Jihad" is infinitely more difficult than applicants war of fighting within themselves for moral purification, death of the ego and victory on the desire, attachment and conditioning. "
Christ taught us that forgiveness frees us from our own petty ego (and its qualities as the pride, revenge, aggression, The grudge bearing) by which we can stay on the path of Dharma. Christ's message is encapsulated in statements such as ' who looks at a woman with lust as he has committed adultery; in other words it is insufficient, a moral or ethical external to true Dharma is the purity of the heart and the mind.
Even before the advent of Lord Krishna when there was absence of the Bhagavad Gita, even before the Jesucristo there was not the existence of the Bible and Christianity, even before the Mohammed there was not the existence of Allah and Islam, but humanity survived of Dharma, the laws of physics. And this Dharma forms the core of Hinduism. Since humans came into existence... there Sanatana Dharma... never existing Dharma since time immemorial. The word Sanatana means something without a start... in other words existing from time immemorial.
In other words Hinduism is defined as Sanatana Dharma... isn't a religion... is not preaching... Hinduism exists for the existence of life. Dharma and only Dharma existed at the time of the branch that came much before Lord Krishna. There is no religion in existence at the time. The society survived because the Dharma rooted in every living being. Even before the word Hindu was coined by fans of Dharma Islamic... India exist as Bharatvarsha. The word Bharatvarsha derives from the Bharat King who reigned over the region where the prevailing Sanatana Dharma.
The region beyond the Indus River, which divides the territory between the India and Pakistan, everything beyond the territory of sindh (now in Pakistan) present lived the followers of Sanatana Dharma, which are pronounced as Hindus (which it was for the people that lived beyond the sindh and as sindh was pronounced as Hind by the followers of Islamic Dharma... immigrants from the region of Hind came to be known as Hindus.) The territory came to be known as territory of Hind and finally Hindustan and the following Hinduism.My idea is do no harm to anyone in any way but to awaken the conscience of all and each. What we are doing in the name of religion and all us on behalf of obtaining more money and prosperity, are in fact pushing this unique place that we must live in oblivion.
No religion in the world teaches us to wage war against our own people.No religion teaches us to respect for nature in any way, all religions in the world teaches us to respect and love the nature and love our neighbor. So why not all we do some introspection? and why we can not take the current preaching of religion that follow each one of us?