Basic understanding of Dharma and its Universality

<aside> 🔥 What makes us live and grow with healthy maintenance - is Dharma in short. (M.2.p33)

• Upholding urge of our existence... (M.2.p32)
• That which upholds every individual and collective life... (M.2.p34)
• What makes anything stand on with life and growth - ... (M.2.p31) </aside>

Beyond all Differences

We have heard saying, good and bad are always relative, what is good to me can be bad to someone else. Being socially moral creatures we tend to find virtue in our action and meaning in our lives but this sense of relativity in all things knocks us out. The good or bad often becomes an object of belief and the striking materialists find it easy to sham this illogical sense of life. This gives rise to several ways or views of life, sects and so forth. Again if we see the strict materialists, scientists even in their downtime become emotional too, find secluded in the search of love, attachment and meaning in life. Above all we are empathetic creatures we are human beings. The more we look into it, the more it deludes us because it is not the way to look into it. Experimentation, Faith and morality all have their proper places but beyond that there is an absolute basis on which the meaningfulness of all other actions, morals or understanding stands. But what is it? How to find it? Dharma gives us an answer to that.

Master says,

What gathers for existential welfare with meaningful adjustment exalting being into becoming - is good. (M.2.p43)

• FAQ: A philosophical enquiry

The Primordial need

The basic experience that is common for all of us is this, - 'I exist'. This means we have a life or existence. No matter what happens, we don't want this existence to extinguish. We want to sustain it, protect it and expand it by identifying with other people and objects, through this acquiring a sense of meaning and fulfillment. We don't like any thing that is not favourable to this existence. So, the basic need in us is to nurture this existence. When we say 'I am' it is an act of being. So to address this essence of existence in us in its entirety we use the word 'Being'. Each of us has being and this being lives. Hence the name 'Human Beings', 'Living Beings', etc. This state of Being is to exist.

No existence no 'ism' root of all isms is 'Existentialism' - Thakur Anukulchandra

Existence through Survival & Becoming

To exist we must eat, sleep, keep this body and mind disease-free, have a roof above our head, etc. but most of us in this world have it, isn't it so? Then why so much misery and turmoil? The problem is these basic amenities for survival and survival is the foremost part of our existence. This philosophical enquiry wouldn't be possible had we not eaten for several days. Master says, 'আগে অন্ন ব্রহ্ম, তা'পর শব্দ ব্রহ্ম' (To experience Brahman or the Supreme, first take Food and sustain yourself, then explore Him through the sound, vibration and knowledge).

But once this survival is taken care of the real problem begins, most predominantly for us humans, we start wanting more. You might have noticed at the moments of crisis a small good news makes us super happy but when all is fine even the glorious events make us feel so so. This need for more, this urge to expand is not a bad thing at all, this is the essence of evolution. Survival is not eternal, one day the life passes on but the urge to live still flourishes unfulfilled. Master says,'contraction is dejection, expansion is delight' this deilght or joy that we feel is that expansion of our being.

Becoming is the cry of existence, and existence enjoys the universe through it and feels it existes; do thou welcome becoming - the uphill move of the being with every nurture of existence and every adjusting go of life,- do enjoy and help others too with the elixir of life and growth. (M.2.p43)

The inherent urge to exist invites the expansion of the being. This is the primary force that has been driving all life to evolve in an eternal quest to seek immortality and pursue in this eternal mission of adaptation and evolution only to sustain its existence. So the drive of existence is to become something more. It is through this becoming that the being feels its own existence.

Three Inherent Properties of 'Being' or 'সত্তা'

• Being is instinct with Sat-Chit-Ananda
• Sat-Chit-Ananda= Existence + Consciousness (Responsiveness) + Blissful Becoming

1. Sat ****(or Existence)
   • Etymologically the term 'Being' means 'to exist', 'Sat' means the same (originated from the sanskrit root sti). So the Being naturally predefines its existence.
2. Chit (or Responsiveness / Consciousness)
   • Our being experiences its existence only when it comes in contact with the environment (even in the subtlest way), just as there is no meaningful existence of shadow without the prior existence of light, similarly without environmental impulses there's no experience of response. This inherent ability to respond is the essence of being conscious. So the Being has consciousness.
3. Ananda (or Blissful Becoming).
   • We do what we do for our happiness or bliss. Blissfulness is a result of the becoming of the being. So, the Being wants blissful becoming.
   • FAQ : Why is it called blissful becoming instead of just bliss?

These properties are intertwined with each other, like different sides of the same thing.

Conclusion:

<aside> 🔥 Being wants to exist with consciousness towards blissful becoming.

It is obvious that Being is naturally Evil-resisting in its nature. i.e. Being is inherently repulsive towards anything that opposes the it in the pursuit of existence, consciousness and the bliss.

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