Sanatan Dharma

     Linking religion with sect or religion is actually limiting the understanding of religion, since the western world is associated only with sect or ‘faith’, hence being ignorant of the Indian viewpoint, it keeps calling ‘Dharma’ as ‘Mazhab’ which is absolutely wrong, in reality the only pure religion is ‘Sanatan Dharma’, all the rest are just its branches i.e. ‘Sampradaya’ and ‘Panth’. Religion is not limited to humans only, it is spread in the entire world/universe; living and non-living things including animals, birds and trees, apart from the five great elements are also governed by Dharma, in reality Dharma is the driving force of nature! Dharma is that sacred ritual which purifies the consciousness. Dharma is that element by whose conduct a person is able to fulfill his life. It is the influence of the development of human qualities in man, it is the good intention of the universal consciousness. The interpreters of medieval religion considered every activity in the world as the will of God, philosophers propounded the reason for the misery of a person's present life in the formula of 'Karma-Siddhanta'. The result of this in the medieval period was that the cause of all the present troubles was considered to be 'fate' or God's will. The misery of the society or the country was considered its destiny. The society itself became fatalistic and remained satisfied with its happy and sad situations.

Today's era has given this awareness that man has to make the path of development himself. The solution of the problems of a society or country is possible through skill, system-change, scientific and technological development, hard work and devotion. Today's man is more interested in improving his present life. His focus is not 'future-oriented' but on the present. He is engaged in the effort to bring divinity down to his own earth. He is desperate to make the earth itself a heaven. That is, he is moving towards the reality of Sanatan.

Branches of present-day Sanatan
Hindu is the oldest - the stem of Sanatan

The Hindu Sanatan group believes that there is only one religion in the whole world, the eternal Sanatan Dharma. The religion that has been in existence since the origin of the universe is called Sanatan Dharma. Apart from this, all other sects, religions, mazhabs, sects are just that. The religious books of Hindus are Vedas, Aranyakas, Upanishads, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Puranas, Mahabharata etc. Vedas are pure spiritual and scientific texts. Vedas are the ocean of eternal truth knowledge beyond the definition of western religion and the beliefs and philosophy of sects and sampradayas. Vedas have been composed to introduce humans to true knowledge. Vedas do not represent sects, sampradayas, mazhabs, religions etc., but are only and only for humans.

Jainism - the first branch of the Sanatan stem

Jain Sanatan group believes that this world, which is a point, has been going on since time immemorial, and will continue to go on till eternity and civilization will keep on developing continuously. Those who have conquered themselves, that is, have conquered attachment, passion, hatred, are Jains, that is, those who follow them. God does not exist separately, but a person can become God by practicing the meditation of his pure soul. God does not do anything, he only knows, everything happens due to the rise of one's own karmas. There is no bondage, you think, understand, contemplate, then do whatever you feel like doing as soon as possible. Jain Sanatan thought is the only such thought in the world which gives freedom to a person. In Jain Sanatan thought, there is no salutation to God, but there is salutation to his qualities.

Second branch of Buddhist- Sanatan stem

Buddhist Sanatan group is a true eternal, system derived from Shramana tradition. It is believed that through this Sanatan all other religions and sects have originated (Es Dhammo Sanantano- Lord's teachings in Dhammapada). This is called the pure Satyasaddhamma path. There have been Buddhas even before Lord Gautam Buddha. The founder of the Buddhist group is Buddhahood himself, not Lord Gautam Buddha. He has given great teachings by converting Dhammachakka and carried forward the eternal tradition of the Buddhas. The Buddhist group denies the existence of God and the centre point of this group is human being. Buddhists believe in the principles of Dharma and Karma, which were propagated by Tathagata Lord Gautam Buddha. Buddhists bow to Lord Gautam Buddha. Tripitaka is the Buddhist religious text.

Abrahamic - Western branch of Sanatan

Abrahamic, the western branch of Sanatan, believes in one God and considers Abraham (Arabic - إِبْرَاهِيْمُ‎ ) as a prophet of God. These include Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i ideology, etc. These ideologies developed in the Middle East and are monotheistic. Jewish tradition is one of the oldest ideologies in the world.
It is not a formally established sect, neither does it have any followers nor does it have any foundation. Experts even say that it is just a spiritual project whose aim is to eliminate the differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaism by looking at the similarities between them and generally these three religions are placed in the category of Abrahamic religion. Jewish tradition claims that the Twelve Tribes of Israel descended from Abraham through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob, whose sons collectively formed the nation of the Israelites in Canaan; Islamic tradition claims that the twelve Arab tribes known as the Ishmaelites descended from Abraham through his son Ishmael in Arabia; Bahá'í tradition claims that Bahá'u'lláh was a descendant of Abraham through his wife Keturah. Even after a century of archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for these historical patriarchs. Most scholars believe that the story of Abraham originated in the sixth century BCE, and that the Book of Genesis does not represent historical events.

Christianity - the school of thought propounded in the Mediterranean region of Europe after Jainism and Buddha
In Sanatan, the school of thought propounded by Jesus Christ 2024 years ago in the West i.e. Central Asia and the Mediterranean region of Europe after Jainism and Buddha, is a sect divided into more than 43,000 sects followed by the maximum population of the world in the form of Christianity. This sect believes that God is a soul and the soul does not have bones and flesh, how can we make an idol of that which we cannot see? No one has ever seen that Almighty God with physical eyes. But God showed his love for mankind in this way that he took the form of a human. That Almighty God who created time, time and man. He himself came confined in his time, so that mankind can get rid of their sins through him. This religion spread like a revolution till the fourth century, but after this, the dominance of excessive rituals and religious authority in Christianity pushed the world into the Dark Age. As a result, since the Renaissance, more emphasis is given on spiritual transformation rather than rituals. The Christian scripture Bible has two parts. The first part is called the Old Testament, which is a version of the Jewish scripture Tanakh. The second part is called the New Testament and describes the teachings, miracles and works of Jesus Christ and his disciples.

Islamism - Arab and North African branch of Sanatan

Islam (Arabic - Al-Islam) is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion derived from a prophetic tradition. It started in the Arabian Peninsula in the beginning of the 7th century, around Hijri 1445 BC i.e. {wwAD). According to Islamic tradition, Islam is based on the teachings of the Quran, the book revealed to humans by Allah's last prophet Muhammad, and it includes Hadith, Sirat un-Nabi and Shariat texts. Sunni, Shia, Sufi and Ahmadiya communities are prominent in Islam. The religious places of Islam are called mosques. Islam is the second largest religion in the world according to the total population of followers. Islam is based on the Quran. Its followers are called Muslims. Islam believes in only one God, whom Muslims call Allah. Hazrat Muhammad is considered to be the last and greatest messenger (Prophet or Rasool) of Allah. Worship of gods and idols is prohibited in Islam. The word Islam is pronounced from the Arabic language (Salm). It means to be peaceful, or to surrender; a person attains real peace only by surrendering to God. According to Islamic beliefs, God created the first human (Adam) and sent him to earth and made a 'couple' from him, which started the process of procreation! This procreation continues uninterrupted. And this is the second most populous ideology in the world, divided into 72 sects and 533 communities. For Islam, all the religious books given by Allah to the messengers are valid. According to Islam, the Quran is the last religious book given by God to man. Four more books are important in the Quran- (1) Sahuf e Ibrahimi which was given to Prophet Ibrahim, (2) Torah which was given to Prophet Moses, (3) Zabur which was given to King Dawood, (4) Injeel which was given to Prophet Jesus. Muslims believe that Jews and Christians have changed the messages of their books. According to the beliefs of Muslims, the human race got divided into two main parts- (1) One group lived their lives by devoting themselves (Muslims) to the principles (knowledge) given by the divine messengers, (2) The second group lived their lives by adopting the attitude of their limited knowledge (speculation, conjecture) and turning away from the divine messengers (Kafir).

Sikhism - the stem of Sanatan, a branch formed for the protection of Hinduism

The Sikh Panth group (Khalsa or Sikhmat; Punjabi) is an ideology started by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in the 15th century during the Mughal Sultanate on South Asia (1556-1707) to protect the human rights of the people. The religious texts of the Sikhs are Sri Adi Granth Sahib or Guru Granth Sahib and Dasam Granth. In Sikhism, their religious place is called Gurudwara. Generally, there are ten Satgurus of Sikhs, but in the religious text of Sikhs, there are the Bani of thirty Bhagats including six Gurus, whose teachings are considered important for following the Sikh path.

Charvaka and Communism - Groups of those who do not believe in God in Sanatan

Since the Vedic period, the group that does not believe in the Vedas and God is considered to be the ideology of Charvaka. The texts related to this ideology are almost unavailable. The Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) propounded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was originally published in London in 1848 due to the inhuman exploitation and oppression of agricultural and industrial workers at the time of the Industrial Revolution in European countries like Persia, Britain, Germany, France, etc. With the slogan ‘Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains’, the Manifesto ends with a decisive and famous call for solidarity, concluding, (1) Capitalism does not offer humanity the possibility of self-realization, instead it ensures that man remains backward and alienated forever, (2) Capitalism will bring about its own destruction by polarizing and unifying the proletariat, and a revolution will lead to the emergence of communism, (3) a classless society in which ‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’. Marx and Engels propose the following transitional policies- (1) Abolition of private property in land and inheritance; (2) the introduction of a progressive income tax; (3) the confiscation of the property of rebels; (4) the nationalization of credit, communications and transport; (5) the expansion and integration of industry and agriculture; (6) the introduction of universal obligation of labour; and (7) the provision of universal education and the abolition of child labour. This latest branch of Sanatan comprises more than a third of the population.

So who is man?

Man is responsible for the rise and fall of civilisation whether he believes in God or not. The eternal truth is that a human being is born naked and helpless after staying in the mother's womb for nine months. In the full life span of about 100 years, he learns, sees and experiences some ways of living according to the circumstances by staying under the care of parents for about 10 to 15 years. At the age of 16 to 20, he starts doing something and getting attracted to the opposite sex according to the law of heredity of nature and starts feeling like forming a pair. Till the age of 50-60, he is engaged in earning money and resources and forming and nurturing a family. Till the age of 60-70, he sees the birth and fall of his children and gradually starts feeling old. Death comes between 70-100 years. No matter how capable or wealthy he is, it is not known where death takes him, making him even more helpless than the condition at the time of birth. In an attempt to understand this process, innumerable texts ranging from Vedas to Communist Manifesto have been written, made and are being made, but every living being in the universe (including plants) is afraid of death. Some feel it but cannot do anything, some become the natural food of others and some come out as different substances. Humans keep doing research on all the processes. Every dead person becomes the seed of his own group as the semen of the father and mixes with the menstrual blood of the mother and then is born in an unknown place under unknown circumstances and then starts his life journey of a maximum of 100 years, again accepting death, to be born again according to Hindus or to wait in the grave till the Doomsday according to Islam. It is not necessary that if a human is born, he will live for 100 years, he can die in the womb itself, he can die as soon as he is born, he can die anytime and anywhere in childhood or youth or old age. I don't know why he has come, I don't know what he has come to do, I don't know who has sent him, I don't know what will happen in the next moment, yet as long as he breathes, thinks, wanders, contemplates, fights, quarrels, sleeps, wakes, does some work directed or voluntarily and then merges into the unknown, this is Sanatan, everything else is just the footprints left by man in the form of seeds billions of years ago, aligned with the memories of time and situation based experiences of infinite knowledge and system chains! Then all are Sanatan, neither Hindu, nor Jain, nor Buddha, nor Christian, nor Muslim, nor Charvak, nor Communist! All of them are children of that supreme power who, evolving from a single-celled organism, have been coming and going in the continuous cycle of movement of humanity and divinity since unknown time and will keep coming and going till unknown time! So be it.  

The literal meaning of 'Sanatan' is eternal or 'the one who remains forever', that is, which has neither beginning nor end.

Achchhedyoayamadahyoayamkledyoashoshya Aeva Cha l
Nityah Sarvagatah Sthanurachaloayam Sanatanah ll
                                                                                           (Gita Chapter 2 Verse 24)

That is, O Arjun! Which is not pierced. Is not burnt. Which does not dry. Which is not wet. That which does not change its place is eternal. Such mysterious and virtuous qualities are present only in God, the entity which is full of these divine qualities is worthy of being called eternal. That means God himself has been called eternal. Sanatan culture is not a process which tells you that you should believe in it, otherwise you will die, or there will be benefit, loss, salvation, forgiveness from sin, some God will decide in the time of doomsday, it is not necessary to believe the Prophet. The one who is a believer, the one who doesn't believe will be an infidel, etc. This culture inspires you to continuously question and be engaged in the intense curiosity to know your Creator through the awakening of conscience with happiness, peace, satisfaction of all as the solution.
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina Sarve Santu Niramaya Sarve Bhadrani Pachantu ma Kashid Dukh Bhagbhavet l Om Shanti Shanti
This means may all be happy may all the healthy may all be well and nobody should be in grief.

Religion
Religion is the element by which a person can live his life. It is the effect of the development of human qualities in man, the good resolution of universal consciousness. 'Dharayati : iti dharmah' means that which is worthy of being worn is dharma. Because the perfection of prosperity and nobleness is Dharma. Vaisheshika Sutra 1.1.2, that is, that which leads to true advancement (self-strength) and supreme welfare (salvation) is Dharma. Dhriti Kshama Damoasteyam Shauchamindriyanigrahah l Dheervidya Satyamkrodho Dashakam Dharmalakshnam ll - Manusmriti 6.52, namely Dhriti (patience), Kshama, Dam (always engaged in Dharma with restraint), Asteya, Shaucha, Indriya Nigraha, Dhi (increasing intelligence by good deeds), Vidya (taking real knowledge), Satya and Akrodha, There are characteristics of religion. To practice Dharma means that we should follow the characteristics of Dharma which are enumerated in the scriptures. Religion is the element by which a person can live his life. It is the effect of the development of human qualities in man, the good resolution of universal consciousness. said in the Rigveda is, Trini. p_da. V Chakra Me_. Vishnu:. Go_pa!. Ada_bhya!. Atah. Dharma_Ni. Dha_Ray_n. Rigveda (1/ 22/18) Conclusion with the breaking of the conjunction Because this is the Lord of the cows, Vishnu, who holds the whole universe, he moved in three stages, therefore all things arise from the cause and hold their own dharmas. The meaning of the term,  for which reason,  this, cannot harm anyone by its indestructibility,  is the protector and the protector of all the worlds, (Bhagwan Vishnu) The innermost of the universal world, (Ishwarah) God, (Dharyan) holding, (Sana) doing, (Trini) Trividhan-three kinds, (Pada) steps altars to be attained or known and attainable things and practices of, (vi) in various senses, (chakrame) prescribed - has created, (therefore) arising from cause- for this reason, (sarve) all, (padarthas) in things, (svani) = his, (svani) his, (dharmani) hold the dharmas caused by their own nature, (dharanti) hold. nature . Nature, eternal law. For example,the righteousness of the eye is to see, the righteousness of the body is to be tired, the righteousness of the snake is to bite, the righteousness of the wicked is to cause suffering. Without the possession of God, it cannot be possible for a matter to exist. Without His protection, one's behavior cannot be accomplished.
In the Vana Parva (313/128) of the Mahabharata it is said: Dharma eva hato hanti Dharma rakshati rakshitah. Tasmadharmo Na Hantavyo Ma No Dharmo Hatoavadhit ll  Therefore Dharma should not be killed Let not the killed Dharma kill us That is, dead religion destroys the killer, and protected religion protects the protector. Therefore, never violate religion, for fear that the killed religion may kill us. Similarly, the Bhagavad Gita says: Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata. Abhyutthanamadharmasya tadatmanaam srijamyaham!!, that is, (Sri Krishna says to Arjuna that) whenever there is a decline (fall) of righteousness and a rise of iniquity, then-then I create (take incarnation) Myself. One should not treat others in a way that is not in one's own favour. Shruyatam Dharma Sarvasvam Shrutva Chaiva Anuvartayatam l Atmanah pratikulani, paresham na samacharet !!, That is, Manu says what is the whole of religion, listen to it and hear it and follow it! One should not treat others in a way that is not pleasing to oneself.

Synonyms of religion Eusebeia (ε!σέβεια 'Eusebeia'), Thraskeia (θρησκεία 'thriskeía') and Religion
In the oriental system the real religion is Sanatan, Hindu is only Sanatan is only a subtle part and the real meaning of religion is true conduct i.e. such conduct by adopting which human welfare work can be done, it is a refined definition of religion. The religion which has been prevalent since the origin of the universe is called Sanatan Dharma. In the Indian context, the rules of following religious duties have been considered. Sanatan Dharma, also known as Hinduism or Vedic Religion, is accepted as the oldest religion in the world. The bilingual inscription of Kandahar (258 BC), written by Emperor Ashoka, has the word 'dharma' in Sanskrit and 'Eusebeia' in Greek, meaning sacred, awe and reverence especially in actions and is found in the New Testament Christian Bible. Meaning is to do the right thing for the gods. In ancient Greek religion and myth the concept of Eusebia is personified as a symbol of piety, loyalty, duty, and filial honor. The word ε!σέβεια 'Eusebeia' as used in the Greek New Testament means 'godliness'. Eusebeia (Greek: ε!σέβεια εύσεβής 'sacred' from ! euse meaning 'good', and σεβας sebas, meaning 'reverence', itself derived from 'sebus' (meaning sacred fear and reverence especially in actions) , is a Greek word used abundantly in Greek philosophy as well as in the New Testament, meaning actions appropriate to the gods.

The root apple (σέβ-) is associated with danger and flight. , and thus the sense of reverence basically describes the fear of the gods, and is distinct from !!ρκησκία (śreskia), ‘religion’, which Eusebia refers to as a real, true, significant and spiritual relationship with God. While threskia is related to religious the external acts of rituals or ceremonies, which are performed by the body may go. Use of the English word 'Religion' is true devotion to God the religion which has been prevalent since the origin of the universe is called Sanatan Dharma. In the Indian context, the rules of following religious duties have been considered. Sanatan Dharma which is also known as Hinduism or Vedic never done in the sense of. It always means worship was from external forms.

Religion – Modern Concept
The modern concept of religion was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries due to the division of Christendom during the Protestant Reformation and globalization of the Age of Exploration, contact of many foreign cultures with non-European languages, etc., and the use of such a term began in the 18th century. Started with the texts of. Whereas the original languages of the Bible, the Quran and other ancient holy texts did not contain a single word of today's reference or the concept of religion. For example, there is no exact equivalent of religion in Hebrew, and Judaism does not clearly distinguish between religious, national, racial, or ethnic identity. One of its central concepts is halakha, meaning walking or path sometimes translated as law, which guides religious practice and belief and many aspects of daily life. Even though the beliefs and traditions of Judaism are found throughout the ancient world, ancient Jews viewed Jewish identity as an ethnic or national identity and did not require a mandated belief system or regulated rituals. Josephus in the 1st century CE used the Greek word iodēsmos (Judaism) as an ethnic term and not associated with modern abstract concepts of religion as a set of beliefs. The concept of 'Judaism' was invented by the Christian Church. And in the 19th century Jews began to see their ancestral culture as similar to Christian. The Greek word threskia, which was used by Greek writers such as Herodotus and Josephus, is found in the New Testament. Threskeia is sometimes translated as 'religion' in today's translations, however, in the medieval period the term was understood as general 'worship'. In the Quran, the Arabic word deen is often used in modern translations is translated as religion, but in the 1600s by the middle of the decade translators had translated Deen as 'law' expressed. The Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes translated as dharma, also means law. Throughout South Asia, the study of law included concepts such as piety and asceticism through formal as well as practical traditions. In medieval Japan there was at first a similar union between imperial law and universal or Buddha law, but these later became independent sources of power.
Although traditions, sacred texts, and practices have existed throughout time, most cultures did not align with Western notions of religion because they did not separate everyday life from the sacred. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the terms Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and world religions first entered the English language. Native Americans were also thought to have no religion and their languages had no words for religion. Before the 1800s no one identified themselves as Hindu or Buddhist or other similar terms. 'Hindu' has historically been used as a geographical, cultural and later religious identifier for the indigenous people of the Indian subcontinent. During its long history, Japan had no concept of religion as there was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning, but when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and made other demands to the Japanese government, Japan had to grapple with this idea.

Indian perspective
In ancient India, the word 'Dharma' meant spiritual maturity, devotion, mercy, duty towards human community etc. Till a few thousand years ago there was no separate thing like Hindu religion. The region encompassing the eastern region including the Indus River and its valley region, up to the northern Pamir plateau, the Himalayan mountain range, surrounded by the Indian Ocean, was known by the names Bharatkhand, Bharatvarsha, Aryavarta etc. for thousands of years and in the present Kali period. Crossing the Indus, it was saved from the dreaded robbers and dacoits or conflict between groups like the areas of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Hindu was the name of this land, and Sanatan Dharma was the religion here. Sanatan Dharma teaches not to believe but to search. We had the freedom for six to eight thousand years to explore with our understanding and intellect and to create our own spiritual process. Here without any interference or attack from others, we could take our music, our mathematics, our astronomy, our scientific thinking, spiritual thinking, etc. to extreme heights. This was possible because the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean protected and protected us. We started calling ourselves Hindus because of our deep respect for both our geographical identities, because without both of them we could not have preserved our culture that has been going on for thousands of years.

Sanatan Dharma
Linking religion to sect or sect is actually limiting the understanding of religion, since the western world is concerned only with sect or 'belief', hence, being ignorant of the Indian point of view, it keeps calling 'religion' as 'religion'. Which is completely wrong, in reality there is only 'Sanatan Dharma' as pure religion, rest all are just its branches i.e. 'sect' and 'panth'. Religion is not limited only to humans, it is prevalent in the entire world/universe; In addition to living and non-living things including animals, birds and trees, the five great elements are also governed by religion, in fact religion is the driving force of nature! Religion is that sacred ritual which purifies the consciousness. Religion is that element by whose conduct a person is able to fulfill his life. This is the effect of development of human qualities in man, the good resolve of universal consciousness. The interpreters of medieval religion considered every activity of the world as the will of God, the philosophers propounded the reason for the misery of a person's present life in the formula of 'karma-principle'. The result of this in the Middle Ages was that 'fate' or the will of God was accepted as the cause of all the present troubles. The poverty of the society or country was accepted as its destiny. The society itself became fatalistic and remained satisfied with its happy and sad situations.
The era has given the consciousness that the path of development has to be created by oneself. The problems of any society or country can be solved through skill, system change, scientific and technological development, hard work and dedication. Today's man is more interested in beautifying his present life. Its focus is not on 'future-oriented' but on the present. He is trying to bring the divinities down to his own land. He is desperate to turn the earth into heaven. That is, moving towards the reality of Sanatan.

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