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- Like what is the Hindu sanatana dharma actually mean? >> See there is no such thing as Hindu sanatana dharma. It is sanatana dharma.
- Sanatana means eternal. Something that's eternal means something that's always true. So if you had come here 100 years ago, you would be dressed differently.
- You wouldn't be making a cinema. Maybe you would be growing mangoes in Andhra Pradesh. Where are you from? Krishna district.
- >> Maybe you will be a farmer. Maybe you will be something else. as a fisherman or something. Same man, but you would be doing something else. If you came
- thousand years ago, you would be doing something else. So what we are doing today, how you dress today, how you speak today, how you act today is a
- generational thing. It's of the times. This keeps changing. How tomorrow the next generation will act, how they will dress, what they will do, it'll be
- totally different from the way we are doing it right now. So this is one dimension of life. This we call as smriti. Smriti literally translates as
- memory or from memory. Whatever you're doing right now, how you dress right now is either just like your father or in reaction never like your father. Isn't
- it? But both by memory. So you have learned certain things by memory. This is smriti. But there is shr which can be interpreted in many different ways. One
- dimension of it is it's the tune of life. This not set by you. This is creation. Only if you understand the shruty of life. Then you can find a
- rhythm. This what bharata means. Bha means bhava or the experience of life. Ra means raa which is the shruty of life. Ta means tala. Bhava is what
- happens to you. It's a experience. But raa is already set. The shi is already set. Now it's for you to find the right rhythm for that so that life happens
- beautifully like a wonderful music. If you don't find the rhythm the same shruty which facilitates life will crush you. So when we say sanatana dharma we
- are talking about that dimension of life which does not change which is fundamental to our existence >> eternal.
- >> It's fundamental. It is a basis of our existence. Well how you dress? What's your profession? How do you deal with your family? How do you deal with your
- relationship? Society. This is all transient. Every generation it's different from person to person. It's different. But the laws that govern my
- life also govern your life. And every other life whether it's a worm, insect, bird, animal or plant, all of them are ruled by that law which is sanatana
- dharma. The fundamental laws which govern the existence. This this must be understood clearly. When we talk about laws, we are not talking about penal
- code imposed by human beings upon each other for control and whatever some semblance of sanity in the society because that law has to change from
- generation to generation. You see there is so much fight going on about chain this law, change that law. Every generation is fighting for it always.
- That's a different thing because that's a transactional law. When we talk about sanatana dharma, we are not talking about a transactional dharma. We are
- talking about an existential dharma. First of all, let us understand the word dharma. Dharma means the law. Dharma does not mean religion. In this culture,
- we don't know what is religion. We don't have such things. We are only looking at what are the underlying laws for my life to happen in the best possible way.
- Because we understand unless you stick to the law, your life cannot happen well because a law is not an imposition. A law is the basis. It's the foundation of
- the existence. If you figure this out well, then your life happens effortlessly because you know the loss or you're in tune with the loss. If you
- don't know, for no reason, you suffer simply. So, sanatana dharma is that dimension. Does it be belong to a Hindu or somebody else or an Indian person or
- some other person? That's not the point. This is what governs the existence. No culture has looked at it with such profoundness as we have in this culture.
- So because of that pride we may say this is Hindu sanatan dharma but we are limiting the possibility of sanatan dharma by adding the word Hindu to it.
- If you understand the word Hindu is a geographical identity the land that lies between Himalayas and Hindu saga is Hindu. In that sense if you are saying
- it it's all right for pride but it's not all right. It's not correct because sanat dharma applies to every life wherever they may be born or unborn. It
- applies even to unborn life and the life that is dead also. So sanatana dharma talks about how to handle the unborn, how to handle the born, how to handle
- the grownup, how to handle different stages of life and how to handle the dead. All dimensions of life. But smiti is something that every generation
- should reinvent or uh amendments need to happen. This only culture which has thought of things like this that we understand social transactions have to
- evolve. Evolution does not necessarily mean uh we're doing something better than the previous generation. It is just that because situations are changing.
- We're evolving so that we fit into those situations. So situational transactions have always have to evolve and change. So this culture allowed that how you ate
- 100 years ago. Today we can debate and say that's not the way we want to eat because my work habits have changed. I when I was plowving the land I was
- eating that much of whatever today I'm just directing a movie so I will only this much of this. So there is no law to say you have to eat like this, you have
- to fast like this, you have to do this because these are these laws must be constantly amended as India's constitution can be amended according to
- the changes needed for a particular generation similarly but even in the constitution there are few fundamental rights and other things that you don't
- touch you cannot call that sanatan but in a way it is for the for the nation it is there are few fundamental rights which are absolute sacrosan you cannot
- touch it but everything else is available for amendments and improvements and knockdown of certain laws all these things. So this is a very
- profound way of seeing life. But what has happened to us is because of over a thousand years of invasion and when they saw when people who came from outside
- what amazed them was they did not come as conquerors to first they just came as bandits few dozens or a few hundreds they were amazed how developed and how
- economically strong and so much wealth but unprotected. Their idea of a heap of gold means there would be 10 men always standing there with arms. But here
- people put a heap of gold on the street unsold because society was so evolved. People understood what are the laws. If I steal yours tomorrow you will steal
- mine and the whole society will collapse after some time. So people were so wise and evolved. When they came this looked like a freefor-all bonanza. They could
- take what they want. Wealth was not protected. Women were not protected. They were everywhere. They picked up what they want and exploited it in a
- most horrible way. Most horrific way. Today we're trying to glorify those things also. Unfortunately, but in a most horrific way did they did this.
- When the Islamic invasions happened, this happened. They did not come as invaders. They did not come as religious crusaders. They just came as bandits.
- But when they saw it was so easy because there were men involved in profound music, mathematics, astr astronomy, astrology, all kinds of things. But
- there were not too many fighting men. So it was a walk over the land, the beautiful land that this was, the rich banks of the rivers, agriculturally
- rich, wealth, gold, diamonds. The first nation which mined diamonds in the world is India. All right. The greatest diamond in the world is still from
- India. uh it is sitting on the British crown. But they saw this is like a paradise that you can take without resistance and
- they took it because they were basically nomadic people, barbarian, they did their own terrible things. Even when the British came, we must understand it is
- not the United Kingdom's army which came. It's East India Company which came. It's a business which came. But they saw it so easy to take this
- country. They became emperors over a period of time. They came only to do business. Traders, traders came and became emperors and rulers of this
- nation because we had such a profound culture where people were not in that fighting mode but involved profoundly into these things and laws were
- absolutely respected by everybody. So they thought the people who came from outside also is going to respect this but they were in for a surprise. By the
- time they recovered it was all over. So now we are where we are wherever we are whether you are Indian Hindu non-Hindu whatever you are sanatana dharma applies
- to everybody because these are the laws which guide the fundamental process of life but smitis are different your smiti and my smiti may be different it is
- different actually what is true in Andhra Pradesh is not true in Tamil Nadu what is true in Tamil Nadu is not true in Kerala so close by what is true in
- this western Tamil Nadu is not true in southern Tamil will not do because this is by memory. Our parents, our culture what they did either we are doing the
- same thing or in reaction we are doing an opposite thing but this is a constantly changing process not only from generation to generation in our own
- life every few years our smutis are changing from our memory we are changing isn't it many aspects of our life but shruty
- doesn't change because this is not set by you this is set by creation so sanatana dharma means this what governs your life. You must understand that once
- you understand that you live a profound and beautiful life. So we didn't have to talk about see in this culture nobody's talking about morality commandments what
- you should do what you should not do moral stuff if you do this you will go to heaven if you do that you will go to hell all this is not there because we
- inculcated this dimension if you are in tune with the loss you don't need punishment you don't need reward if you understand the traffic law rules and
- you're driving accordingly you don't need a policeman isn't it so this was a culture without a policeman for which we paid the price in some way
- unfortunately. So satguru the yeah at that point of time the sanatana dharma in our country was so strong and because it was our country we call it
- the Hindu sanatan dharma and there is a talk that everything is diluted like the beat religion even if you think in terms of religion in terms
- of the sanata of today's age everything feels diluted feeling So why do you think that is happening even though it's been a long
- time since uh uh since you know we have we have been under any direct foreign influence and also the original strength that we had like back in the day where
- did that come from >> see you cannot dilute sanatan dharma your understanding may be diluted but dharma is not diluted because it's a
- basis of the existence yes individual understanding may be diluted From person to person, it may be in different dimensions of understanding.
- But is the dharma diluted? Who can dilute it? Because you didn't create it. That is what is governing the loss of nature. All right? So you cannot dilute
- it. When we say loss of nature, today modern science has brought this sense of very superficial way of looking at it. Loss of nature means gravity, physical
- things. But there is a law. See from the same soil this tree is growing from the same soil this creeper is growing that comes out with one kind of leaf this
- comes out with another kind of flower from the same soil you have eaten and you become this from the same soil I have eaten and I have become this source
- is same look at the manifold expression they say there are over 1.6 Six trillion life fors on this planet right now. That's the thing. But I think there are
- many more that you have not even seen. Okay. From a microorganism to a human being in between everything has come from the same soil. Isn't it? So why is
- it suppose let us say you and another animal eat the same food for the next 2 years. You think at any point you will get confused that you may be the animal
- or the animal will get confused that it may be the director. Is it possible? >> No. So obviously there is a law governing it, isn't it? No matter what,
- it is not like a traffic lane where you can go here and there. It's like a railway track. It is just fixed and you're just going on it. The question is
- how fast and how far will you go? That's the only question you have. You can't become this tree, can you? Can you become a tree? Can you become a dog? Can
- you become a cat? Can you become a cow or an elephant or a tiger? You cannot do what you want. You can call yourself a tiger. That's a evolutionary backward
- step. But you cannot become if you eat like a tiger, you will not become a tiger. If you behave like an you will not become
- one. Whatever you do, it will not become one because there is a fundamental law governing all this. If you understand and if you're in tune with that, you
- will live effortlessly. If you don't understand, every step you will struggle. So is sanadh and dharm diluted that's not even in our hands to dilute
- our business is only how profoundly do we perceive that law how much are we in tune with it so entire system of yoga is just that we are not talking on those
- terms but essentially we want to we want you to be in tune with the rest of the existence so that your life happens joyfully with
- exuberantly to the fullest capacity that it can happen. See only thing that can go wrong with your life is just this. Did you find full expression to your
- life or not? Isn't it? What can go wrong with this tree? Only thing is will it grow into its full capacity or will it die as a half-grown tree? The same is
- true with the human being. If you are in tune with the loss, you will grow to your full possibility. If you're not, you will become stunted in some way.
- This is our only concern, isn't it? People may not actually think like this but actually that is the only thing. All their desires, all their ambitions, all
- their longings are all about becoming a full-fledged life. So if you want to become a full-fledged life, understanding the laws of on what basis
- this life is happening, is it not very important? That is sanatan dharm. It doesn't belong to you or me. It is laid down by creation. It's for you and me to
- be in tune with it. Here we have understood and codified it and put it together in a certain way. It doesn't mean in the rest of the world nobody
- knows about it. Many individual people know about it. They might not have written it down as shruti smuty whatever. All right. But a whole lot of
- human beings around the world have been in tune with it because everywhere human beings have blossomed and lived well. But no culture has put it together in
- organized way because this level of understanding has not been there. This has happened to us because we had about 6 to 8,000 years of uninterrupted
- culture. This is why we call ourselves Hindu because we know this unin uninterrupted growth and flourishing of this culture happened because of two
- main geographical features. Himalayas protected us in the north. people didn't come easily in the south. The Indian Ocean was the barrier. Once they learned
- how to cross Himalayas and once they learned how to navigate the Indian Ocean, then we are done. That's what has happened to us in the last thousand
- years. So in in today's age like today's uh generation whose responsibility would it be to teach or tell or guide people to be on the right path or to follow or
- or to understand the the dharma because it's uh is is it I mean in today's age we have to even wonder is it uh is it even does does who holds the
- responsibility is it like >> no no in every age people think there is something wrong with the younger generation. Okay, there is a there's a
- quote which says uh this younger generation is lost. They have no respect for wisdom. They don't even stand up when
- elders come. This generation has no future. Something like this. I'm paraphrasing it very much like that. But who said this? So said it
- at that time also he thought the same thing. So he now also parents are thinking the same thing. Our parents are also were thinking the same thing about
- us. I'm not thinking like that about the younger generation. I see that there is a possibility the question is the previous generation what kind of
- footprint they leave that decides what kind of footprint the next generation will leave. If you have left an irresponsible footprint, uh they will go
- somewhere. If you have left a responsible footprint, responsible does not mean imposition. Responsible means cultivation, isn't it?
- >> Inspiration. >> Inspiration and cultivation, not imposition.