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| Books By David Frawley |
| VEDIC DHARMA AND THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION | |
| Sanatana
Dharma: Hinduism and the Universal Religion
There is at least one religion on Earth that has always based itself upon the idea of a universal religion not limited by person, revelation, or time-space bound coordinates. There is a religion not only based upon the idea of an original universal teaching but named after it. This is the Vedic or Hindu religion, called Sanatana Dharma or the eternal religion. The Vedic religion strives to reflect the true and original religion not only of all humanity but of all creatures, not only of this Earth but of the entire universe. It does this by its willingness to hold in itself all forms of human religious aspiration without boundaries. Vedic Dharma recognizes both the Divine Unity along with a free and pluralistic approach to it that can preserve all the spiritual potentials of humanity. Vedic Dharma calls itself apaurusheya, beyond the human. It is a religion that has no founder or beginning but is inherent in the Absolute and manifests at the beginning of every cycle of creation and is born with the soul at its every birth.The Vedic religion is the religion of light, truth, goodness, wakefulness, and awareness. It is the religion of the Self, our true nature in consciousness, which shines like the Sun deep within the hearts of all beings. Studying this teaching can help us understand the universal religion and connect to it again at a deeper level. The Vedic religion speaks of Sarva Dharma Samabhava, a Sanskrit term meaning that all Dharmas or all truths are inherently in harmony with one another.
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