Re: How to Strengthen our Dharma?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
All the wonderful ideas offered throughout this string has been good and worthy of consideration. Yet Please consider this - dharma no doubt has its action component - who can say it does not ? Yet one must be aware dharma does not start or stop with doing. If we think we are the doer each time we have confused ice for a diamond.
Does this suggest we do nothing and just wait out our time on this good earth ? No, this would be wasting one's breath. Yet without proper actions one vascilates between thoughts of good and bad, worthy and unworthly , like-able and un-likeable, etc.
He who has no undue fondness towards anything
who neither exults nor recoils on gaining what is good
or bad, his intellect is established- bhāgavad gītā, chapter 2, 57th śloka.
What do I wish to say ? dharma comes to full bloom when one's divine consciousness ( some like to call it khecarī samatā) is fully present. Note I say 'present' and not developed. It is there , just behind some of the things that make me think 'me' is most important.
'Doing' in disparateness (vaiṣamya) does not yield maximum results. 'Doing' is for some gain. The 'doing' in khecarī samatā , one feels the presense of the Supreme everywhere; the 'doing' is not on the individual level. This then is Universal Dharma, upheld by the Supreme.
Then the actions and their qualities ( being of kāma , krodha, or sattva)¹ all come with the support of the Supreme - this is when dharma is in full bloom.
praṇām
words
- vaiṣamya - diversity, inequality , oddness (as opposed to evenness) , diversity , disproportion
- kāma - desire
- krodha - anger , wrath , passion
- sattva - perfect balance, Being; purity
Last edited by yajvan; 05 January 2012 at 10:39 AM.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
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