67 The Spiritual

Dharma adharma and vidharma.

Question / प्रश्न 67

What is धर्म / Dharma, अधर्म / adharma and विधर्म / vidharma and how they are mutually and comparatively  related in any way to the अध्यात्म / The Spiritual (Reality)?

धर्म, अधर्म और विधर्म क्या है और उनका अध्यात्म से क्या संबंध है? 

Answer / उत्तर : The Spiritual (Reality) is the Universal Truth, The Unique underlying principle, unobstructed by Time and Place.

The Dharma, the adharma and the adharma emerge from The Reality / the Truth and the Sense of Time and Space / place too likewise appear to exist alongwith the consciousness of the self (undefined).

Consciousness implies sentience and sentience implies the consciousness.

The consciousness alone is Dharma -  pure, unalloyed, unspoiled, and One without the Other. This is verily the Unique and Underlying Principle and knows nothing as "other than itself". With the emergence of perception of the senses, emerges the idea of "This other" and "I" as "self (Undefined)". The "self' and This other essentially are though two aspects of a single and the Unique Underlying Reality -  Principle, this apparent bifurcation is because of a sentient organism.

The sentience in an organism (or in a living system) exists on its own but because of a physical world and accompanying physical body, gets focused onto this material body and all take it granted that this very body is indeed oneself.

The point is :

Is the sentience a result of the physical body or is the experiencing of a physical body because of sentience?

An example of the fire and the wood could tell us -

Fire is hidden there in the wood, still the burning of  the wood, and geting fire ignited, outer fire may help. It's assumed that fire as an element pervading all and  everything is not manifest and is manifest as soon the conditions make it happen.

Likewise the elemental sentience is all pervading Reality and is revealed as soon as there is a physical instrument is available to this elemental sentience.

The elemental sentience is therefore the consciousness irrespective of the physical,  individual body. Spread all over in the whole existence.

This may tell us and let us see how ब्रह्मन् / the brahman is consciousness indeed.

The subsequent behaviour of this consciousness or the elemental sentience is what may be called धर्म / Dharma, the essential nature of all and everyone / everything.

Discovering this essential nature of oneself as the self and abiding in this true self is the spiritual aspect of the धर्म / Dharma, the material aspect is the attributes of the material elements that is the basis of discovering the material science(s).

These attributes of  धर्म / Dharma are the spiritual or the material or both.

The spiritual attributes are pure essential धर्म / Dharma, the material attributes are the विधर्म / vidharm and the mixed effect is अधर्म / the adharma.

Two salient and the evident aspects - Existence (being) and Knowing are the two of the spiritual aspects, of the essential Dharma, while the assumption of oneself being something other than this is the becoming something else than the essential self. Again "not knowing" this Truth is ignorance of this essential self and even in this ignorance also there is the natural, spontaneous acceptance of one's being as being oneself. Both together are the foundation and the basis of the sentience in any individual life-form.   

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