Thread on Sanatan Dharma. Part 1

Hinduism,the world's oldest known Dharma, its not like an organized religion like christianity or islam. It has no founder no pope no hierarchy and even no name. Hinduism is not a religion it's actualy called Sanatan Dharma, Sanatan means Ancient

The word Religion is not the synonym for word Dharma, religion is synonym for word Mazhab which is an urdu language word and quran and bible can be said Religious books or Mazhabi kitab but they cannot be said as Adhyatmik or Dharmik books

The word Hindu is not mentioned anywhere in any Spiritual books of Sanatan Dharma, it was Persian who used to call Hindus to the people living across the river Sindhu, initially they called them Sindus and it became Hindus due to pronunciation issue with Persians.

So according to this either it's people of India, pakistan, Afganistan or bangladesh are all Hindus irrespective of whatever religion they belong to either they belong to christianity or islam doesn't matters. Other sections like Jainism Sikhism & Buddhism are all branches of one

Sanatan dharma. Now to Hinduism it is first and foremost important to understand fer words used in Hinduism like - Dharma(duty), Bhagwan(physical manifestation of God) , Jeevatma(soul) , Parmatma(formless God) , Devta(Male deity) , Devi(Female deity), Adhyatma(Spirituality)

and Ahenkaar(Ego). All these terms are all sanskrit words which actually has no translating words in any of the other languages in the world, so here i will still try to use best suited words which could make you to grasp the actual meaning of these words as much as possible

Adhyatma is a branch which deals with the study of Atma and parmatma. Many people use word Spirituality as synonym for Adhyatma which is not right actually but this is not completely wrong. We have few words like dharma, Adhyatma, Ahenkaar, manushya etc for whuch we use some

Words quite near to Sanskrit words. Atma and parmatma both are same things according to vedanta but still at many places in vedas or upanishads Atma is called Soul, parmatma is the supreme being ie God to clearly understand between Atma and parmatma. For eg Assume a bucket filled

water in which you are able to view the shadow of night moon, now that bucket is a body and shadow of moon visible inside is an Atma of that body and real moon outside in sky is Paramatma i.e God.

Ahankaar: it's the belief inside every human mind that Iam human being or

a structural body or a mind or intelligence or in short Iam anything else but not atma or soul due to Ahankaar person believes all Karmas ie deeds which is done either by his mind , intelligence or body is actually done by him. It is this Ahenkaar which is barrier between

every human being and his Salivation or Nirvana. Reason of Ahankar is Agyaan (Lack of knowledge). So the person which has Ahankaar is agyani and the person whi is learned is called Gyani.

Next will continue in thread part 2

The Eternal Order that was there even before the creation of this universe and would remain in place even after the annihilation of this Universe..

#सनातन - जिसका ना कोई आदि, और ना ही कोई अंत..!!