Dharma

Many a times have we come across this word in our life and scriptures and yet the true meaning is hardly understood by many. So let me explain the term Dharma.

The Dharma of a tree is to bear fruits, leaves, seeds and give shade.

The Dharma of a tiger is to hunt for himself and his brood.

The Dharma of sun is to give light and power to the world and others in the universe and burn bright.

The Dharma of a human being is to study, work for a living, get married and procreate.

These are few explanations for you to just start with but let me tell you this is a huge list of things that we have to naturally do in this creation.

It is the natural law that supports this creation or the firmament that holds up this creation.

Let us see if the sun stops shining then this world will end for sure.

If the tree stops giving seed or bearing fruits and giving shade that would be disastrous.

If the humans stop procreation then there would be no further generations to come.

If the moon does not reflect and show the coolness of the sun we can have darkness at night and there would be no mutual attraction between the earth and no tides.

So now let us move on to the Adharma.

The above four examples wherein we see the natural laws are disobeyed can cause tremendous upheval in our universe so, hence this is called Adharma.

Krishna says when Adharma strikes I shall come to this earth in the Bhagvad Gita.

He means that when the natural laws are breached He comes to restore the balance in creation.

It really does not matter what form He takes as long as He comes to rectify that undoing.

I hope this explanation can suffice for the understanding that which is Dharma.