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Hindu Dharma: The Sastras And Modern Life
The chapters that exist in "The Sastras And Modern Life" are listed in this page.
To go to another part in "Hindu Dharma", please either go back or see the bottom of this page.
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The Cure for the Disease called Modern Civilisation
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People are caught between two groups holding opposing views. On the one side they feel the pull of individuals like us who maintain that they must take to the path shown by the sastras; on the other they find themselves drawn in the opposite direction by the reformers who want these sastras to be changed. From a youthful age people nowadays are used to reading reports extolling the changes that go by the name of reforms. It is all due to the ...
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Religion and Society
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While adherence to the tenets of our religion entails certain inconveniences in our workaday life, following the rules of the dharmasastras,people feel, creates difficulties in social life. On this pretext reformers want to change the sastras. Unfortunately, they are not aware either of the truths on which the dharmasastras are founded or their ultimate purpose. By 'social life' they-the ...
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Neither too Much Ease nor too Many Comforts
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Now people want to live in comfort and to be provided with all sorts of amenities. There is no end to their unseemly desires. In America, it is said, everybody has a bungalow, car, radio, telephone, etc. But are people there contented? No. There is more discontent in that country than in our own. There the incidence of crime is more than anywhere else. It is all right that every American has a car. But today's car is not good enough for them ...
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Sastra or Conscience?
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The goal of dharma is universal welfare. The great men who produced the works on Dharmasastra didn't have a trace of self-interest in them and had nothing but the thought of the happiness of all creatures. These treatises are the authority on which dharma is founded. You find the form of things, the image, with your eyes; you perceive sound with your ears; you know dharma with the help of Dharmasastra. The ...
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