Celebration time!!! The Supreme has guided us through the gullies of time and space to where we at Eternal Solutions stand.
Now, he has bestowed us with another blessing, with another feather in our hat—the Hindi version of Eternal Solutions. Although we do not have any partisan feeling towards any language or culture, yet it fills our heart with supreme joy to finally publish our cherished manual in Hindi. This extends our readership to those who love what we say but would like to hear it even more in their own language. And what more of a topic could be more relevant than Sanatan Dharma as it is a lead story. Sanantan Dharma is really a way of life—this has been said time and again, but this expression is so befitting that it suits the bill to hilt.
Sanatan is eternal, it is universal. It is all comprehending. Therefore, it has something or the other for everybody. This makes every person gain something or the other from this Dharma.
Dharma is that which holds things together—Dharayati Iti Dharma. If you drop an object in thin air, then, after certain time, it falls on the ground and takes a form. This form is its natural form and this form is best for it in given time and space. Similarly, Dharma is that which is best for us. And this best varies from soul to soul, surrounding, to surrounding situation to situation. For instance, what happened with Mahatma Gandhi at Pietermaritzburg happened with Swami Vivekananda also while he was travelling across India and abroad. Yet his life took a different course. Both did their own Dharma but in different manners, through different itinerary, in different time and space.
Hence, Dharma can never be defined or comprehended in any limit. It has to be lived; it has to be experienced as love and joy and brought into the heart and practised with vehemence. Those who want to preserve it or disseminate it should never forget this fact.
Dharma is not for God. He does not need anything whatever we know of Him certifies this fact. We need it. By following it we do our due. By falling from it we slip from our own position in this creation…by following it we do what the Divine wants us to do wherever we are standing.
The Dharma that thwarts other Dharma is no Dharma at all. Dahrma is that which doesn’t obstruct any other Dharma.
Dharma should never be abandoned out of fear, desire or greed; Dharma is Eternal; Pleasure and pain are ephemeral. Hence, (every) being should pursue the Eternal (Dharma) and not the Ephemeral (pleasure or pain).
Pt. RK Shrma
Editor-in-Chief