Flow with the cosmic goodness
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07 February, 2012
I can translate dharma and adharma in this way.
If the basic facts with which you make all the decisions of your life are in tune with Cosmic goodness and the larger vision of life, you are flowing with dharma. It means, whatever you are creating is going with the good of the universe.
For example, you are giving medical care to people and making money. This is complete dharma. But if you are selling narcotic drugs and making money, it is complete adharma. Your success is going to be destruction for so many people.
So, if the facts with which you make decisions are good for the Cosmos and good for others, then you are moving in the right direction. If they are not good for others and the world, that is what I call adharma. Adharma is the wrong cognition of life, which leads to the wrong actions and decisions.
Life larger than lifestyle is dharma.
Lifestyle means, what kind of food, what kind of house, what kind of car, what kind of clothes, what kind of people you have around you. Looking at your life larger than your lifestyle, planning for your life larger
than your lifestyle, is dharma. It means that your decisions are not just centered on you. Keeping yourself open to all the possibilities is dharma. Keeping your being open to all the auspicious things in life, whether it is wealth or health or enlightenment or fortune, is dharma. Shutting down the possibility is adharma. Keeping all the possibilities open - that is the first thing. Second, not postponing or delaying or shutting down the possibilities, just because you cannot encounter or face certain situations. Trusting in the possibility is dharma, the flow of life. Unfortunately, by and by, you start believing that the possibility itself does not exist. Believing that the possibility for further progress does not exist is defined as Rahu in Vedic astrology. Whenever you shut down the possibility, you are suffering with raahu. Shutting down any possibility, shutting down any hope, is atheism. Keep all hopes alive - even if it is false hope! Understand, all hopes finally lead you to hopelessness - not because they are false hopes, but because they ultimately lead you to reality. Hope by its very innate intelligence leads you to reality. So keep all the hopes alive. Keep all the possibilities alive.