1. Tapas – Austerity
2. Karuna-Compassion
3. Saucham-Purity
4. Satyam-Truth
Lets take the case of Satya - Truth
Once there was a Brahman who never used to lie.Now a man who was fleeing away from bandits came to him. Pleaded him to save and was hiding himself in the Brahman's hut.The robber's came and followed him.They have asked the Brahman & as he is a truthful man revealed the truth that he was in the hut.The bandit happily went and stole the money and belongings from the man and slayed him.
Here, undoubtedly, Brahmin acted against Dharma though he was truthful & accumulated sin for betraying the person who came to his refuge & for becoming cause of his death. His first & foremost Dharma was to save the man from the robbers. Just in the "ahankar" (egoistic thinking) of his being Truthful (which is also abominably selfish on his part when the life of a fellow human being is at stake) he became the cause of death of the person who trusted him & took refuge in his hut.
One of the meanings of "Dharma" is duty. This duty is not same for everyone in all circumstances
Can killing be one's duty ? Yes & No. If you are in army, you must kill to safeguard your country ... you may be forced to kill an aggressor to save an innocent soul. Shall I kill to gain someone's wealth ? Certainly Not. Even if you are agnostic & don't believe in any God, any religion or any scriptures, these answers would come to you from your inherent nature as a human being. Most of the laws in democratic countries are not based on any religious scriptures but there not many laws which violate the scriptures. Why ?
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Well lets understand more on what exactly satya is.
In the ramayana you read about shoorpankha. She wanted revenge.What was true to her was that lakshaman cut off her nose,what was true to mandodaree was that raavan should give away sita,what was truth to raavan was his pride and ego.So this was their view truth.
What was gandhari's perception of truth?
Her thinking was that her 100 sons were dying dead on the field and many wives had lost their husbands.She thought that it was all Krishna's fault and he could have stopped the war but he didn't so Krishna was Adharmi according to her.This was truth to her at that time.
Even if large number of people in a society violate Dharma, then the society as a whole is in danger resulting in major upheaval.
We are seeing here that everyone's conception of truth is different.
Truth - 2types
1. Relative (may be good for now & change as bad later - pleasant)
2. Absolute (alwayz Good)
Lets not mistake pleasant with good.
What is Pleasant? Relative Truth ->>>>
Something, which we think is “good” today, we may think, is “bad” tomorrow.
Usually, people mistake the “good” for merely “the pleasant”.Eg. in simple words - too much of nice food today is good but is “bad” tomorrow when they cause a bellyache.
Yama, the Lord of Death, cautions that great spiritual seeker nachiketa in the kathopanishad ->>>>>
“Do not mistake the pleasant for the good”.
The knower of Dharma must be able to distinguish the “good” from the “pleasant” and he must always, if he wishes to “protect Dharma” choose the “good”.
What is the real quality of “Goodness?”
If it is to be a quality of Dharma, it too must endure, it too must be eternal.It must be permanently good, and not change from day to day, year to year, millennium to millennium or even from culture to culture or from place to place. True “Goodness” must always “have been Good, be Good now in present time, and always be Good in all times to come”.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
"In all eighteen Puranas, Vyas has stated only two things :
By helping others you accumulate merits & by hurting others you accumulate sins."
Dharmo rakshati rakshitaha
(Dharma protects those who protect it)
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