Bhagvad Gita

Bhoomiraapo’nalo vaayuh kham mano buddhireva cha;
Ahamkaara iteeyam me bhinnaa prakritirashtadhaa.

 Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and egoism—thus is My Nature divided eightfold.

Sanarthana Dharma –Eternal religion


The religion of the Indo-Aryans is generally known as Hinduism and .Brahmanism both of these words have been coined by foreigners. The rivers sindhu, flowing into the Arabian Sea and forming part of the western boundary of India was known by the ancient Persians as the “Hindu”. The Greeks borrowed this name and changing it Indos which much later was converted to Indus by the name of India. Early Europeans coined the name Bramanism because they found they were dominating Hindu society. The Hindus prefer to call themselves as Sanarthana Dharma (eternal religion) which is based on the Vaidika dharma which is based on the teaching of the Vedas.



The Bhrama sutras, Upanishads and Bhagavath-geetha are called “prasthana threyas” or the eternal three. The highest of philosophies explaining everything that you can find on earth and beyond in a intellectually satisfactory way can be found these texts of the sanarthana dharma. These are documented truths of several saints who spend several years meditating on the “meaning of life” and “meaning of the cosmos”. So they are pretty much like your scientific Journals, which latter became consolidated stuff as several cross checking of results. Also there were disagreements over the philosophies on what is the highest attainment and ways to attain it. Infact there were other philosophies which refuted Adwaitha, called Dwaitha(dualism) and Visishtadwaita(specialized non-duality). Adwaitha is considered the highest of philosophies by most intellectuals.



Bhagavath geetha – though it is something like the Bible where a great person born on earth giving a great sermon. The Bhagavath-Geetha is the essence of the Upanishads. This sloka explains this clearly.



“Sarvoupanishad gavoo doktha gopala nandhana ha

partho vatsa ha sudir boktha duktham geetham mritham mahathu”



All Upanishads are like cows, Gopala(Krishna) here is the milkman, Partha(Arjun) is the calf, and Krishna is milking the cows(Upanishads) and giving it in crisp and nice form to be distributed to everyone. So basically Bhagawath geetha is the essence of Upanishads (Essence of the Vedas.)



All these truth anyway are not useful unless, they are realized. It is many a times hard for non-intellectuals to understand philosophies, some people just don’t like these. So,except for the “prasthana threyas” nothing else holds reins on Hinduism. These unchanging stuff are called Sruthis and all other truths (smrithis) are relative and are determined by space and time, and hence changes with them. Also there is no smrithis for the current age and it is actually not possible to write smrithis for this age as the changes are happening very fast. So hey people of sanarthana dharma(hindus and everyone) hold on to the sruthis, which independent of everything in the world. If they are independent of time and space, they are ofcourse independent of everything in the world(which are depended on time on time and space.



- The beauty of sanarthana dharma lies here that it has non-changing eternal component and another changing one. What more can you expect