Dharma in a nutshell

What is Dharma? Vedas say -The Sole and Ultimate Authority is Dharma.The Changing Dharma-Everything changes as the place ,time or person changes.It is a grave mistake to translate Dharma as Religion. Benefits of the Practice of Dharma -Dharma is your nature,but language compells us to use the term "Practice of Dharma".What already is your,to achieve that is the practice of Dharma.Kinds of Dharma-There are many kinds of Dharma for example Varna Dharma,Deha Dharma,Ashram Dharma,Guna Dharma etc. Fundamentals of Dharma- Non-violence (Ahimsa),Truth (Satya),Brahmchary Varna Dharma Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra. The Four Asramas(Student, house-holder, recluse, renunciate) Brahmacharyasrama, Grihasthasrama, Vanaprasthasrama, Sannyasthasrama .Yuga Dharma- In Satya-Yuga, there was a different set of Dharmas or laws; in Treta-Yuga they changed into another form; in Dvapara Yuga, the Dharmas were different from the Dharmas of other Yugas.~Prabhat Ranjan

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Four steps to God realization

In Tantra there is a shloka-UTTAMO BRAHMA SADBHAV MADHYAMA DHYAN DHARANA,JAPASTUTISYADADHAMA MURTIPUJADHADHAMA.It literally means-feeling oneself as Brahman is best,meditating is mediocre,chanting and prayers are lower and idol worshiping is lowest in nature. As i understand this shloka,it just describes the four stages to God realisation.On spiritual path one starts with idol worshipping,then he starts chanting some mantra,then meditating and at last he feels that he/she has become God.That is Brahma sadbhav.One can't just leap to that stage. No stage is superior or inferior.They are just stages through which a seeker passes.Without going through the first stage,if one will just try to be in Samadhi, s/he won't get any real success.If you have not gone through idol worshiping you won't be able to realize the formlessness of God.You will just become a hypocrite.Like followers of some religions who say they don't believe in idol worshipin

Speech: Understanding, Living & Preserving Hinduism

Source ~ Forum for Hindu Awakening 1. Introduction 2. Understanding, Living & Preserving Hinduism 1. Introduction On 5th November 2010, a novel educational program, ‘Spotlight on Hinduism’ concluded successfully at the Drake Tech Centre in Fort Collins. On the occasion of the widely celebrated Hindu ‘festival of lights’, Diwali , many from Fort Collins and surrounding areas thronged to attend the ‘Spotlight on Hinduism’, a public event held to create awareness about Hinduism. The programme received honourable attendance by the Fort Collins Mayor, Doug Hutchinson, who inaugurated the programme in the tradition of Hinduism, with the lighting of the auspicious oil lamp. Hutchinson shared the importance of not just tolerance, but of ‘proactive inclusion’ of the myriad cultures like Hinduism in Fort Collins, to enrich the City’s diversity. The Spotlight on Hinduism, compeered by Ms. Kate Anderson, a World Literature Professor at Colorado State Univers

Food and the Dharma

In modern Hinduism many people give too much stress on the food.They say certain things should be eaten while certain things are never to be eaten, then only you are a true Hindu.In my view your food makes hardly an effect on being your Hindu.It’s your personal matter that what you eat and what you don’t eat.Yes,certainly food makes an effect on your mental state, not more.If you take vegetarian food,it helps to keep your mind calm.But only vegetarian food is not going to help you attain enlightenment.If vegetarian food could get you enlightenment,then all the vegetarian animals would have got enlightenment.I am not saying that take non- vegetarian food.Again i will repeat that it’s your personal choice what to eat or what not to eat. The important thing on the path of Dharma is Sadhana or spiritual practice.Whatever you eat ,if you do spiritual practice,you will attain enlightenment sooner than later.

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