DHARMA

We have covered samskara, and how karma affects the samskara and how samskara influences karma.

Through all this lies the thread of Dharma. Dharma is the thread which goes through the karma, samskara to give it the shape of the mala or a garland.

You can also perceive it as the center of a circle. At the periphery is the samskara, the karma and the series of births and deaths.

The center which has never moved is the Dharma.  A man should do karma according to his swadharma. A doctor’s swadharma is to heal and he has the means to heal or hurt.

The medicines that he uses to heal can also be used to kill. His dharma does not allow him to kill a person using the overdose of a medicine.

A soldier’s dharma is to kill the enemy. If he starts healing the enemy and the doctor starts killing then the swadharma is being violated.

This is a very simplistic model but conveys most of the meaning of the word.

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