Santana Dharma is the Vedic religion based on Vedas alone.+

 

The question arises as to what is Santana Dharma? It can safely be said that it is the Vedic religion based on Vedas alone.

Hinduism as we find it today is not pure Vedic religion it mixer of different ideologies accepted by the people from time to time. Thus the Hinduism is a hotchpotch mixer of many ideologies.

Hinduism is not a religion it is a way of living of different caste and creeds following their own regional cultures and traditions in different parts of India.

All the so-called Hindus are divided by caste, sub-castes, and creeds within Hinduism. Thus the pure Santana Dharma or Vedic religion is no longer in existence in its ancient grandeur as it was prior to Buddhism and Jainism.

As one goes deeper into the annals of the religion one becomes aware of the fact that Santana Dharma has no beginning. Nobody can say when it started. It is without a beginning and so without an end. It is eternal and everlasting. That which has a beginning, has also an end, as all beginnings have an end also.

Santana Dharma or Vedic religion has no founder. All religions are known by their founders or prophets but this is not the case with Santana Dharma. It neither has any prophet to begin it nor any book or authorized scripture told by the prophet who got revelation.

If Santana Dharma has no founder but all so-called Hindu religions are known by their founders or sages, therefore Hinduism cannot be the pure Vedic religion or Santana Dharma. Thus, it proves that the religions founded by the Sages after the 7th century onwards are not the pure Santana Dharma or Vedic religion.

As one peep into the annals of the all history of all religions, one becomes aware of the fact that the religions with scripture have got the largest number of followers and those without scriptures are rare and scarce. In both these classes of religions, one finds that the truth is the result of the experience of a particular person – Jesus, Prophet Mohammed or Buddha, and Sri Sankara, Guru Nanak, Mahavira. All of them experienced the truth and that they preached. All religions are built upon the direct experience of this experience. But there is a difference.

Others have the founders of this experience known as the first founder of the religion and after their name, the religion is known. The other difference is that they now claim that the experience, the prophets had, is now no longer possible. So, one has to rely on "Belief” and he has to realize the fact that, any belief is not truth.

The experience of the scientists says that if one experience is possible, it will be repeated eternally. This is the Law of Nature. What once takes place, takes place often and always.

As one goes deeper into the annals of religious history, he becomes aware of the fact that Santana Dharma or Vedic religion differs from other religions on this point.

Santana Dharma is not based on the spiritual experience of any single individual or any such revelation. It is based on the realization, intuition, and experience of a number of seers, sages, and mystics who realized the Infinite and were illuminated. It does not owe its origin to any one person or prophet nor does it adhere to any papal authority or dogma.

It does not build around one man as its center though it is not opposed to philosophies built around personalities and prophets. It believes in scientific precision and experiments to arrive at truth any time and many times, so it believes in the free expression of thoughts and inquiry into the fundamentals even. It is therefore a tolerant religion, granting freedom of Inquiry and Expression, seeking evidence.

Looking into these entire facts, one can conclude that the Santana Dharma is an eternal and everlasting humanitarian religion of all mankind. It is not limited to the teaching of any particular people or class of people or any form of worship. It is a comprehensive way, a law of being ever praying to be with the Absolute.

In this respect, the present Hinduism with its diverse caste and creed, dogmas, rituals, beliefs, and worships are not purely Vedic Religion but it is a hotchpotch of ideologies adopted from other ideologies and seers experiences.

As one goes in deeper in annals of religious history, one also finds the oldest spiritual writing known to mankind in the Vedas about 6000 BC, orally transmitted for most of history. It makes them the world’s longest and most ancient revealed scripture of Santana Dharma.

Vedas are concerned with wisdom; what is life about; what does death means, what the human being is, what is the nature of the Absolute that sustains us, and the cosmos, etc…..

Sanatana Dharma believes that there is nothing that is not God. The Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all. God permeates everything and nothing permeates God.

In dualistic philosophies, the imaginary god is made as a creator based on cause and effect theory. Then the doubt naturally arises, who is the cause of the creator. The creator is dependent on creation for his existence.

Without the creation, the creator ceases to exist. Thus the dualistic theory holds no water because it is based on mere imagination and speculation, which they try to prove by citing the mythological stories and doctrine of code of conduct. When the self is not the body then all these dualistic ideologies hold no water. Therefore the devotional paths, which are based on human conduct, are not the means for TRUTH–REALIZATION.

Even religious-based non-dualism is not the means for truth realization, because their preaching is based on nonduality but their practice is based on a dualistic viewpoint. Therefore, it is difficult to get TRUTH–REALIZATION from conduct-based orthodox non-dualism.

Thus it looks like the real essence of non-dualism is lost or destroyed in the past by the orthodox oriented priestcraft and propagated and injected only priest-crafted non-dualism, to the mass, the reason best known to the masters of the past.

It is impossible to come out of all these priest-crafted confusions in one lifetime. Through orthodox non-dualism, it is impossible to get truth realization.

There is no need to collect all these baggage of confusion, if one is seeking truth, nothing but the truth. The guru is necessary only in religious and yogic paths, but the guru is not necessary for the pursuit of truth.

The path of truth is a personal path and it is the path of verification. But in religion and yoga, verification is not allowed. Blind faith is the main ingredient in belief systems and yoga. Gurudom is playing with words because maybe the meaning is floating somewhere in between the spaces of words...

People who think themselves to be in a position to air their knowledge forget one basic fact, namely that they go by mere appearances. Someone expounds knowledge and the one who receives it begins to ape the person from whom he has received the knowledge. They never question the validity of that knowledge.

Thus, whatever the guru wears, he will wear; whatever mannerisms the guru affects, he will imitate. Thus, they only learn to pretend.

All so-called accumulated knowledge" is mere speculation based on the physical self/ego. This is how tradition became established and traditional forms of worship came into being and passed on the one generation to the next. All these have nothing to do with Self- Knowledge.

Whatever One has heard, whatever he has been told, will have no value as far as the ultimate point of view.

Whether one accepts the fact that, the only knowledge that he really has is the knowledge that he exists, that is consciousness. Other than that, whatever knowledge he thinks he has as a person, is part of the illusion, something acquired, based on the illusory consciousness.

The realization of truth is not intellectual understanding. Self- Realization is about realizing the fact that, the self is not physical, but it is the formless soul or consciousness. Intellectual, logical, analytical perspective is based on the false self, which will not help the seeker to reach his non-dual destination.

The truth is beyond intellectual understanding and only the serious seekers who are free from preconceived accumulated ideas can get there.

The seeker of truth moves ahead by verifying the facts and by removing all the obstacles and reaching his non-dual destination.:~Santthosh Kumaar