Manav Dharam

How to attain permanent peace Remember that so long as one’s mind attaches importance to an object and is tempted by it, nay, as long as its possession is supposed to be the sign of good fortune or God’s grace and its absence is taken as a misfortune and its necessity is felt, and so long as its possession is supposed to be a source of joy and fulfillment, one cannot be free from desire: one cannot attain disinterestedness or desirelessness. Nobody can attain ‘disinterestedness’ by merely repeating this word. One can attain it only when the objects desired appeared to be harmful and destructive of real happiness. Then the objects will appear unreal and of no significance. The real renunciation of desire is a function of the mind. It is not merely a matter of words. The mind is the seat of beneficent truthfulness. In order to attain disinterestedness, desirelessness, it is necessary to realize the transitoriness, imp

What is the Power which energizes you? What is the mystery behind the process of respiration? What is the vital energy on which everything depends? That life-energy isn't something which can be expressed verbally, yet it is the source of all languages. It is invisible, yet it makes us see. It cannot be known through logic or philosophy, yet the powers of reason and memory spring from it. It is the Self in every single being and experiencing it, realizing it, is our natural dharam, or Manav Dharam ('the dharam of mankind'). Manav Dharam is realizing one’s own innate potential and to evolving it to its ultimate levels. It means realising the common bond which encompasses the whole universe. It is universal, eternal, ever present and beyond matter and mind. Man is not merely a mechanism of body and mind but is Spirit in its truest sense. This is why it is said that we are one in spirit. In fact spirit is life and life is spirit. Manav Dharam therefore in