DHARM and RELIGIONAs and when I, or for that matter anyone else have entered into a discussion, the PURISTS would often try to push the person on the back foot by declaring that what Hindus follow is Dharm and religion is not at all relevant when it comes to Hindu Dharm. Religion is something foreign, we are told, and this has destroyed Hindu Dharm and society. When one asks the simple understandable meaning of Dharm, they will start quoting from various scriptures, making it more complicated and confusing. As such a simple definition of Dharm would be “RELIGIOUS BELIEF, OR OBLIGATION, WHICH HAS TO BE PERFORMED PHYSICALLY, and where the faithful does not have a choice or option. In other words this religious belief has to be performed with commitment”.

The other important thing which every faithful must understand is that ITIHAAS i.e. Ramayan and Mahabharat are historical narrations, in which Lord Vishnu, takes birth in human form, as human incarnation and performs LEELA in human form. And the purpose was to establish Dharm. As such every important event in the life of Shri Ram and Lord Krishna would constitute a Dharm. This important fact should not be ignored.

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