dharma
धर्म dharmaDuty, righteousness, and the moral and cosmic order that holds the world together; right action in keeping with one's place and the larger order.
Where this term appears
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
Three Sanskrit words do most of the heavy lifting in Hindu ethics and cosmology. Dharma.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
Classical Hinduism accepts the Vedas as shruti , revealed and authoritative scripture, the ultimate court of appeal in matters of dharma and truth.
- Is yoga Hindu? Is it a religion? Yoga
Yoga's origins are unmistakably Hindu, and more broadly Indian, but the fitness practice most people mean by 'yoga' today is a modern, largely secular reinvention,…
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
In Chapter 2 it sets out the sources of dharma , sacred duty, and it does so in an order.
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
Krishna urges Arjuna to do his own sva-dharma , the duty proper to him, and Arjuna's own anguish at the start of the poem includes a fear of varna-sankara , "the confusion of varnas," the social chaos he thinks…
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
Tell me, he says to his charioteer, what my sons and the sons of Pandu did when they gathered, eager for battle, on the field of dharma, the field of the Kurus.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
He is held to be ideal precisely because he chooses dharma , righteous duty, even when it strips him of his throne, his comfort, and at terrible cost his life with Sita.
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
Inside the tradition, against the tradition Where does such a school sit within Sanatana Dharma?