Sugarcane has the characteristic of sweet that is its dharma.medicines have the characteristic  of bitterness,fire has characteristic of hotness. Snake has characteristic of biting. Snake can’t  give up it. Sugarcane  can’t give up characteristic of sweetness. We can’t change it. Stone is solid we can’t change its characteristic it is its dharma.

 

Your next question may be that, if dharma is the natural characteristic of a man then only why few persons can come in touch of it if it resides in everybody.The simple answer is that those creatures are unable to get the blessings of god. A leaf can’t displace from its position without the sanction of god then who are we ? We are only slave of god and we can’t do nothing.

Let us try to understand dharma deeply. I have said earlier that dharma is the natural characteristics or it is a set of rules and regulations set up by the supreme personality.I am giving support to my point that how dharma is a set of rules and regulations. For instance according to dharma killing any living creature is a sinful activity that’s why we call a killer as a bad person who takes or destroys lives of many living creatures.killing of any living creature may it be an ant or elephant is a sinful activity.Even trying to hurt any living creature is also a sinful activity.

Types of dharma:-

There are basically two types of dharma

1       pashu dharma

2       maanav dharma 

pashu dharma means the rules followed by the animals including eating, sleeping, scarness, sex. These are virtues of animals. These are essential for animals to survive. these four activities may differentiate an animal from a person.

Maanav dharma is a broad term it has itself a broad meaning   the dharma followed by human beings is known as maanav dharma. Serving any person or animal is the maanav dharma. Everybody in this material world is refracted from the original path of maanav dharma. Everybody is serving   some other person(s) in this material world. For example a married lady is serving her husband, her children & other family members. That is her dharma. A person working in a company serving his boss is also his dharma. He has to follow it. Father and mother serve their children that is their dharma they have to follow it, known as pitra dharma and matra dharma respectively. Soldiers are serving their nation that is their dharma. They must follow it.

But by doing this much only is not the path of liberation.  Only by serving the material things we can’t achieve  perfection and liberation. If we serve in perfect direction and perfect person(following dharma) then it can only be considered as work of perfection. But if it is misunderstood then it means we are serving maaya not dharma.

Best dharma:-

Set of rules given by god itself in the epics and scriptures is dharma anything else cannot be considered as dharma. But here we will consider that what is super dharma. Then answer of this question is ahinsa. It is the super dharma. Therefore it is said that.

Ahinsa permo dharma

Now it is asked by many persons that either service of god is the service of human being or service of human being is the service of god. different devotees have different answers of the questions or there may be conflict between there answers. But according to my view service of human being is the service of god.

How can we inspired about dharma:

Do not try to get dharma from outside world.Try to get it from inside. It resides inside each and every living and non living things.try to uncover it as it is covered by maaya or bad things. The next question arises in the mind is how to get aware of dharma,how we come to know about it? The perfect answer is to go to the guru or religious persons or to read epics and scriptures. The guru should must having sound knowledge of dharma and must have pure heart.for example if want to know about a family then what will you do? You will simply go to the head of the family and try to know everything about the family from him.

Similarly guru can be considered as the head of the family in this material world.

You can know about the path of dharma from your spiritual guru or dharmik(spiritual) persons otherwise you will be refracted from your path of dharma.

I think you are get better understand about dharma from this theory about dharma.

Dharma is very wide concept but here I have tried to explore it briefly in a better way. So try to uncover dharma and taste it.

1 what is dharma?

Ans “ vathu sahavo dhamo”

i.e. religion is the nature of a thing. it is a natural character of a thing.

Dharma teaches us the art of living and help us to get real happiness, peace and attain salvation.

1       what are the virtues of dharma?

Ans Nonviolence, penance and self control are the three virtues of dharma.

2       what are the three jewels of dharma  ?

ans. right knowledge, right faith (understanding) and right conduct living( are the three jewels of dharma.

5. how many types of greatness are there?

Ans. Greatness are of two types:-

-greatness by age

-greatness by qualities

But the best is “greatness by qualities”.

6. what is the difference in these two greatness?

Ans. There is a great difference in these two. All are matured by age time makes them elder. Real greatness is of qualities the one who is great in qualities is great in reality.

7. what are the means to  become great?

Ans to become great one should pay regards to the virtuous people or gyani people or guni people. we must pay respect to learned people so that we also follow the same path to  acquire those qualities.   

8. who are those great people whom we can pay regards?

Ans. We can pay regards to great enlighten souls and gyani people.

9. how many dev padas and how many guru padas are there?

Ans. Dev padas-(i) arihant  (ii) siddha

Guru pada-(i) aacharya (ii) upadhaya (iii) sadhu

10. Do we need dharma in every deed?

Ans . yes ! practicing dharma is very essential just as body need energy in all its activities. The principles which can be right dharma principles. Life is enriched by dharma.

11. what is sudharma?

Ans. God thoughts and compassionate actions prevent atma(soul) from going lower levels(durgati) and is calld sudharma.

Truth non-stealing, celibacy, renouncing worthily possessions etc. are practice of sudharma.