Monday, January 13, 2020

The path to Dharma AND path of Adharma

The most critical aspects of humanity facing ever since the human common senses are used purposefully for bettering are two things which also often get infuriated or fanatical in the public debates all over the world: these are religion and the ideology of politics.

I write this post after reading a small article by a senior advocate R Venkataraman who has such an amazing skills to put down the complex things into a clear and lucid manner.

Sometime back, he wrote a article on senior advocate's legal skills and the impact of certain principles of religion in his arguments of cases in court for decades. 

I find some of the his lines of thoughts most interesting and compelling to read and read again to ponder and understand the meaning of the words (m)used by R Venkataraman.

The following are some of the excerpts from the article:

"Religious philosophy is neither caste specific nor gender biased. It only imparts the transformative process to every human being, from the path of Adharma to the path of Dharma. Like Adharma which has universal belonging, the opposite of it namely Dharma has universal application and is relevant in law. The core of Dharma is free from both gender and caste discrimination.Self realisation or emancipation is again free from the clutches of either caste or gender sensitivity.

It is critical to look at religious philosophy as one that is broad-based in its practice and classifies human attitudes on the basis of Dharma and Adharma.....

It is important to remember that religious philosophy is concerned only about Dharma and Adharma and prescribes the method without any favor or bias towards any class or gender."

  

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