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Sanatana Dharma, which means the eternal or universal religion, is the ancient name for what we today call the Hindu religion.
It refers to a dharma, a teaching, law or truth that exists in perpetuity, that is all-encompassing, embracing the full spectrum of human spiritual experience, culminating in the direct realisation of the Divine as one’s own true Self.
The life-breath of Indian civilisation is spirituality. India has been blessed through time immemorial with a long rich lineage of saints, prophets and self-realised masters who have upheld the cause of dharma and propagated those truths to her people.
The power continues behind the Hindu tradition, particularly in its yoga and vedanta spiritual forms, providing it with a depth, breadth and vitality that perhaps no other spiritual tradition on Earth is able to sustain.
‘Sanatana’ is a Sanskrit word that denotes that which is ‘anadi’ (beginningless), ‘anantha’ (endless) and does not cease to be, that which is eternal and everlasting. ‘Dharma’ is from ‘Dhri’, meaning to hold together, to sustain. The Vedas were a product of divine revelation. They were heard (shruthis) and their authority is unquestionable. They are without a beginning and cannot be associated with human authorship.
Sanatana Dharma is a code of ethics, a way of living through which one may achieve moksha (enlightenment or liberation). It is the world’s most ancient culture and the socio, spiritual and religious tradition of almost one billion of the earth’s inhabitants. It represents much more than just a religion; rather, it provides its followers with an entire worldview, way of life and with a coherent and rational view of reality. Also, ‘Sanatana’ refer to perennial, abiding, universal, ever-present, unceasing, natural and enduring while ‘Dharma’ refers to harmony, righteousness, compassion, natural law, truth, teachings, tradition, philosophy, order, universal, flow, religion, wisdom, divine conformity, cosmic norm, inherent nature, law being and duty.
Times may change, ages may roll by, continents may rise and disappear, but values of life like truth, love, compassion, one’s duty to parents, preceptor and to fellow beings, and the eternal reality of the spirit and unity of all life, are truths and values that subsist and will subsist forever. These are the eternal values and truths are embedded in the vedas and are embodied in the religion that had evolved out of vedas.
The vedas contain specific codes of conduct that are prescribed in multiple domains for spiritual seekers. Some of these include the need to always speak the truth, follow the righteous path, avoid being deceitful, do what is beneficial to your spiritual advancement, avoid the company of atheists and avoid taking the name of the Guru because he or she is not limited by name or form. The Sadguru is actually beyond all limitations.
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