Gita In Daily Life - Chapter-1 - Dharma - Practice -

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Namaste All.

 

Normally one follows dharma unconsciously.

A Conscious following of dharma as a practical

exercise, might lead one into further new insights at

an individual level. If one does not have the time,

one can just try for an hour.

 

The question arises, how does one follow it

consciously for one hour. As we can see, the dharma of

an object falling is to fall. Dharma of birds with

wings is to fly rather than walk. Dharma of

individuals is to tune to the universal dharma.

 

As Swami Harshananda says in his 'gita booklet',

when the many were created, it is the universal dharma

that keeps it all together while they are many.

The universal-dharma thus encompassing many and many,

looks very intricate and complicated from the outside.

>From the inside, it perhaps looks very simple --

being the original unconditioned state of

atma-chaitanya. Any adharma is therefore that which

causes a disturbance to this original state and dharma

is one that retains it...

.... within the manifested creation...

 

[For those who are bhakti-oriented:

In the following, concept-of-awareness

must be replaced with -personal-God- ]

The question remains, how does one practice for an

hour. For each individual: Activities and thoughts

from all sides or directions, thus, if they are seen

not to disturb the concept-of-awareness, then, one is

following dharma. Here, we are saying

concept-of-awareness because while the atma-chaitanya

is hard to know, concept-of-awareness, everyone knows.

[Thoughts and feelings, revolve around sense-organs

and do not touch the concept-of-awareness]

This also leads to the future sloka on

active-while-inactive and inactive-while-active.

The numerous dharmasastras then, are possibly to help

retain the concept-of-awareness by showing what is

dharma and what is adharma; due to one having the

inevitable need to act and the need to retaining the

concept-of-awareness while acting.

 

This perhaps is the first part. More interesting

part is to tune to the universal-dharma with all

interconnected many-many. Thus, the dharmasastras

deal with our duties to those entities who we do

not know first hand, such as duties to birds,

duties to the poor, duties to future generations,

duties to atithis(guests), duties to ancestors etc.

With love, it all becomes a joy of

interconnected-whole.

 

Love & Regards,

Raghava

 

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