Sanathana dharma

Defined in brief, devoid of lengthy treatise or jargons, all aspects of life of a

HINDU, I mean a correct Hindu in heart and soul not the show offs, require no
labeling by or from anyone, no justification by or for anyone, no approval from
anyone, no abstract theories or explanation by anyone, no debate or critical
analysis or evaluation based on any -ism, nor even any fanatical following based
on any specific methods of life style. One can revel in all these aspects of life of a
Hindu and they reveal their splendor by merely living a life of constant self
enquiry based on any or many levels /methods of perception available and
accessible to the heart, intellect and soul of the individual. This life of self enquiry
will manifest the various levels of metamorphosis of one’s spiritual evolution
wherein the reverse process of life takes place. That is as we grow through the
inevitable multiple and different forms and conditionings, we acquire huge
carapace of irrelevant loads of activities to our life thinking that each one is
important, indeed they may be /are at different stages of life important, but not
vital, the self enquiry strips us of the carapace of important/relevant
conditionings of the past and makes us notice the essence of every aspect of life.

Sanathana dharma is perhaps the best known way which gives sketchy guideline
for this process of soul’s slow but sure search for spiritual enlightenment
/evolution/improvement. The crux of the matter is to grasp the essence of
spiritual vibrations in every aspect of life in our own way and leave out the
extraneous factors, however greatly revered by tradition or promoted by religious
institutions or eulogized by the elite. Everything in any process of growth is
just a step, important and inevitable, but not a stop. It is so with mother’s
milk [our biological aspect of life]; it is so with learning of alphabets, words and
numbers [our intellectual aspect of life]; it is so with hugging, kissing and cajoling
as babies [our emotional aspect of life]; it is so with our learning and
understanding of different concepts [ our philosophical aspect of life]; it is so
with all forms of worship, devotion and all its concomitant rituals and religious
practices [ our spiritual life] and so on. This is the inherent wisdom. A normal
human being has to go through a process to grow in everything or into
something. There may be exceptions like a Adi shankara, or a Bhagawan
Ramanamaharishi.

We can neither avoid the steps nor get struck to them. That’s why I cannot accept
the snobbism of so called intellectuals parroting pet slogans like religion without
rituals, god without religion or religion without gods, spiritualism without god or
religion etc. In fact I have books titled in each part of the slogan.

Not only Hinduism but Bharath matha itself is an enigma wrapped in mystery for
any one who has not lived it, one must grasp the spirit of it, which is imbued with
spiritualism and jeevan. That’s why a true Indian can live anywhere with
anything or even without anything. Whereas most of the westerners cannot live
even without a specific brand of tissue paper or at least any tissue paper.
Unfortunately no westerner has so for understood properly nor can understand
either of the above [Hinduism or Bharath matha] fully unless they live it
shedding all their conditionings with their heart and soul