2006-09-06 20:04:37 · 6 answers · asked by jayakrishnamenon 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Clamour for food is being heard everywhere, though if each one worked hard, the problem would not arise at all. We talk of stomachs to be filled, but each stomach arrives in the world with two hands. Those hands, if they are kept idle or unskilled, cannot fulfil their assignment of finding the food for the stomach. Work hard - that is the message. And share the gain with others. The harder you work, the greater your gain, the more you can share. Work hard and, more important still, work together with others in loving kinship."
"If you cannot pray for the total welfare of the community around you in whom God lives, how is it possible for you to worship an invisible God? The first thing you have to do is look after the welfare of the living community around you."
"If the individual is deluded into believing that he is serving others, then woe be to him, for there is no other at all. All are One; One man's sorrow is everyone's sorrow. The fundamental flaw is the ignorance of man. If only he was wise, he would have known that all individuals are waves on the surface of the selfsame ocean."
2006-09-12 01:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by jayakrishnaathmavidya 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a Sanskrit term, Sanatan means eternal and Dharma means that which is inherently part thereof.
To give an analogy of this in a material context, the Dharma of water is that it is wet, the Dharma of the Sun is heat and light.
Similarly each individual living entity has a common Dharma, an example of this is we all have material bodies and the Dharma of the material body is that it is temporary.
The Dharma of the conscious living entity within the material body is that it is not material and is the observer from within the material body.
These are two examples of Sanantan Dharma, these facts are applicable to all living entities regardless of the mental conditioning imposed through a cultural and religious framework.
This makes the Vedic system very scientific and leads to full consciousness of the individual self and of God.
To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-09-07 03:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No you got it wrong. Sanathana dharma was not at all considered a religion and existed even before aryan invasion into india. After the aryan invasion they formed Hindu religion which accepted and included all the good things in the sanathana dharma and re organised it and made a full fledged religion. Till then sanathana dharma was not considered one religion. Try meeting Dr.N.Gopalakrishnan, Hon. Director of Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage if you are really interested in knowing. Or try getting his speetches in cd/dvd. I am sure you will be done with after you have met him. He's a great soul.
2006-09-07 03:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Lord Of Lust 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hinduism is one of those rarest religions that is not composed, discovered, invented or acertained by a single person or based on a single person, unlike Jesus Christ in Christianity and Prophet Mohammed of Islam. Hinduism is a way of life, its a colelctive combination of the teachings of the Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads. It does not teaches to pray to a certain God or Goddess, it teaches to pray the ultimate supreme, the God of all gods.
2006-09-07 03:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by Mantra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not Really
2006-09-07 03:05:56 · answer #5 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i am a muslim,however i do admire how much self control hindu people have.
2006-09-07 03:09:37 · answer #6 · answered by teenage_temptress89 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋