Now, a great number of Indians have come to realise that Dharma is not religion. Most of the earlier narratives in English used religion for Dharma and even now the practice mostly goes on despite the growing realisation. But even those who know about these phenomena mostly see these only in terms of variance. The greater fact is that these phenomena exist not in variance but in total contrast. Dharma is about nature but is not paganism, it is rather a philosophy as well as the science of coexistence: of harmony, first, among human beings, and, then, among beings, and, further, among beings and things. And more pertinently, Dharma though talks of the essence, but the finding of the essence is an evergoing quest. It does not accept the finality of anything. The Gayatri Mantra, the most recited and holiest of all in the Hindu life, only seeks the sharpness of intellect and by that a clearer vision of the reality, which may be existent and which may not be so. Religion in contrast is about superseding nature and about the end of the human quest. Such opposites can be multiplied to great numbers and that would not be such a great discovery but the unfortunate thing is that a ceiling is mistaken for the sky.
Niraj Kumar Jha
कोई टिप्पणी नहीं:
एक टिप्पणी भेजें