can you define Dharma ?

Question

What is the diference between adopting Dharma and Doing one's Duty ?

Answer 1

Dharma to me is doing the right thing at the right time. I think doing one's duty is just a part of it.

Answer 2

Doing one's moral duty prescribed in the ancient scripture. Following the same in day to day affairs in discharging his duty. Right thinking people always follow Dharma. Without dharma, one cannot chaff his right duty from the wrong one.

Answer 3

Dharma is a specification to bound the human being in a single thread...

I would like to add one famous quote here..

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary..."

if you go anywhere on this planet then you will come to know
that every single human being is related to a religion or you can say Dharma...

Thanks...

Answer 4

Sure. Dharma (Religion) is the intrinsic quality of a substance. Every substance (or entity) in this universe has its dharma, which cannot be separated from it. For example Dharma of sugar is to be sweet and Dharma of water is to be liquid and wet. Same way there is some intrinsic quality (nature) of everything in this creation.

Coming to Humans the Dharma of humans is to serve. Surprised? Just look around and you will find that you are serving someone or something in your life. Someone might be serving his family, someone might be serving society, someone animals and there can be an endless list for the different kind of services different people are rendering to different objects. But in case you are totally disconnected and not serving anyone else then you are anyways serving your body by feeding it and taking good care of this body. Now, please don’t say that you are surviving without eating ;-). But all these services if not rendered with God in center, are useless.

As you might already know we are not these bodies but eternal spirit souls. We have transmigrated to innumerable bodies before we got this human body. Human body is the only and very special opportunity to use our intelligence to identify our real Dharma. And the real Dharma of every living entity is to serve the God almighty.

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Answer 5

Dharma is the basic principles of the cosmos.
Where you go when you died many times before and were good in the Buddhist religion.

Dharma is also an ancient Hindu god that was worshiped by the lower castes.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma
"the underlying order in nature and human life and behaviour considered to be in accord with that order. Ethically, it means 'right way of living' or 'proper conduct,' especially in a religious sense"

There's not much difference really. Perhaps "duty" can be either secular or religious while dharma is more religious?

Answer 7

dharma was a fictitious character on the television show 'dharma and greg'.

she was the child of hippies and greg was the son of conservatives. the extreme differences in life's viewpoint made some light humor.

thus:

you must adopt dharma (and greg) in order to do ones duty to keep it on the air. which was 1997 to 2002. fives years of viewers doing their duty! :)

smart_aju: umm...dude, even angels are governed by God himself...

Answer 8

The concept of dharma seems to me to be like the ancient egyptian concept of Maat. Namely, being and living in accord with "cosmic principles and laws".

By doing so, you live a life that is "divinely guided and blessed" Doesn't get much better than that, eh ? :))

Answer 9

it is a descipline of practising ethical value of life in a society as illustrated by their scriputure of religion

Answer 10

Mybe you should ask some Hindu!
I think it has something to do with their law or something.
I learned that in school but forgot!