VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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403. Dharmah -This term is used in Hinduism in thousands of different

shades that, to the early student, the meaning of this term is lost in

confusion. Dharma of a thing is that because of which the thing is,

without which the thing is not. " This term, Dharma, has, therefore,

been translated as " the Law of Being " -the Dharma of the Sun is light;

the Dharma of the Fire is heat, the Dharma of Sugar is sweetness. What

then is the Dharma of the individual? The essential Dharma of the

individual can only be the self, because, without which is the

individual cannot exist, and the individual's expressions, physical

mental and intellectual, are all expressions of the self through the

equipment in Him. Thus " Dharma " means the only self in all individuals.

 

This is essential Dharma in anything is that which supports the things

and, therefore, the self which is essence everywhere, is considered as

the very one which supports everything.