SANATAN DHARMA ... 1
The enormity of the manifestation of power in the whole of humanity makes us wonder as to the background power that must be impelling it all. And, to top it, there is the power of all subhuman sentience and the power of Nature. Ancient man thought on it and came to startling discoveries in religion, philosophical and doctrinaire. But the driving force was ever the sensing of the background power which seemed omnipotent in its capacity to govern cosmic phenomena. Thus arose the concept of the omnipotent God with all His decrees and commandments, injunctions and inviolable truths codified into fixed texts which were elevated to the status of scripture. This happened everywhere except in ancient India where for thousands of years the strictest scientific rigour in terms of experimentation and verification, amendment and adjustment of posited rationalisation was undertaken till a synthetic grand philosophy emerged which came to be dubbed as the Sanatan Dharma and which through linguistic aberration in common parlance came to be called Hinduism. The defining feature of this Perennial Philosophy, as Aldous Huxley dubbed it, was that it, unlike the religions of Semitic origin, was entirely universal in scope and founded in organic realisation available to all aspirants irrespective of nationality, race or cultural background. Like modern science it is unlocated in any specific regional realm and like it, it is verified and verifiable with no emphasis laid on belief whatsoever.
Written by Sugata Bose
The enormity of the manifestation of power in the whole of humanity makes us wonder as to the background power that must be impelling it all. And, to top it, there is the power of all subhuman sentience and the power of Nature. Ancient man thought on it and came to startling discoveries in religion, philosophical and doctrinaire. But the driving force was ever the sensing of the background power which seemed omnipotent in its capacity to govern cosmic phenomena. Thus arose the concept of the omnipotent God with all His decrees and commandments, injunctions and inviolable truths codified into fixed texts which were elevated to the status of scripture. This happened everywhere except in ancient India where for thousands of years the strictest scientific rigour in terms of experimentation and verification, amendment and adjustment of posited rationalisation was undertaken till a synthetic grand philosophy emerged which came to be dubbed as the Sanatan Dharma and which through linguistic aberration in common parlance came to be called Hinduism. The defining feature of this Perennial Philosophy, as Aldous Huxley dubbed it, was that it, unlike the religions of Semitic origin, was entirely universal in scope and founded in organic realisation available to all aspirants irrespective of nationality, race or cultural background. Like modern science it is unlocated in any specific regional realm and like it, it is verified and verifiable with no emphasis laid on belief whatsoever.
Written by Sugata Bose
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