It matters little whether you believe in God or not. Do you exist or not? And if your existence is reality, this alone is the practical thing. And if you admit to your existence, then the course of your coming to existence is also a reality; this is axiomatic. And because you exist, so you are always striving to retain your very being; and whatever is adverse to this being, you have the tendency to resist that too. Again to nurture, nourish and fulfill the being the environs and surrounding is indispensable for you. Because, it is your environs and surrounding from which you are gathering the nutrients for your being. Also to resist the evil you are to depend on your environment and surrounding. Therefore you can understand that if you are to get nutrition from the environment, you must be allied with every individual of that environment and for that matter you are duty-bound to them; and that of the sort, so that the beings of theirs also get nourishment and upliftment through you. For this some code of conduct too is necessary, following which this reciprocal nourishment is done. If you go on only getting nourishment without giving that to others, you will merely be an exploiter of your environment; will become as unwanted fella of your environment.
Also ponder over that because you have consciousness, you can feel the pulse of the environment, and you can conceive their existence and apprehending them accordingly can decide your line of action which may become benign to all. Anyway whatsoever, had that conscious spirit been not awake in you, could you have such thinking, feeling, comprehension to undertake any considerate enterprise? Also it is a hard fact before us that a morbid, unconscious or subconscious one can’t do it. And as you are conscious, you want to retain that conscious life, you want to live; you want to grow with wealth, decency and active valour. Thus, within that urge to live lies the urge to evolve, so that you may move on for furtherance growing more and more apropos of your innate culture which has specifically been set up with your organic sprouting up.
Such is the case with every individual according to every peculiarity. Your distinctiveness has made you what you are, not otherwise. So the distinctiveness of anyone else has made him what he is and not what you are. Now if we want to retain this distinctiveness dynamic in succession towards progressive elevation, you must adopt right genetic measures with right conduct and concentric nurturing of urge, in order to attain characteristic-emblazoning good progeny. In a word, all the characteristic-enhancing genetic principles too stand irrefutable and indomitable to us. And with the assemblage of some such distinctive characteristics some specific groups have been cropped up which is termed Varna by the Aryans. There are some categories like Vipra, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra according to their culture of inner organic sprout. Again, every individual has blossomed with the purport of this sprouting. Some have become opulent through their capability, some have become intelligentsia or intellectuals, and as per level of intelligence some are toilers or labourers. But no matter how many groups might be there, each one is essential in this affair of nourishment of the being. We cannot survive, we cannot live or we cannot move neglecting anyone of these because, nutrition of the being is the desired good of us. As much we shall unveil this good in various ways with the help of others, we will become grateful and interested to them with so much intensity. For, they bear direct interest to our being; they are growing in the environs as the nourishing agent of our existence from which we can acquire ingredients of our being and becoming.
But if you become greedy and create a number of greedy groups like you, you will, then, become a real exploiter of your own environment on the plea of their very interest and sympathy. Your normal tendency will become to crush them, to break asunder those distinctiveness or characteristics, to enslave people for your selfish interest to forfeit their individual liberty. And for that may be of temporary advantage to you, not for all who have their own existence. For, the transaction in the world depends on the basis of the characteristic of men. One of the supreme symptoms of the healthy being is that it gathers from the environment what is conducive to its characteristic and makes the environment nourished and developed with the contribution according to its characteristic. So, for overall well-being of the society, the integrity of characteristics and cooperative individual liberty is a must; and abolishing this people will be entirely deprived of evolution.
To understand this precisely we must admit to this fact that every particular individual is evolved with a specific distinctive characteristic and biological adjustment. You can expect from them only that what comes out spontaneously with their natural import. And that natural outcome from that particular distinctiveness is irrefutably essential for procuring the nourishment of your life. So, in that manner if you destroy by breaking those distinctiveness, it will be hard to procure. Hence, in your own your interest you will have to nourish them, you will have to develop them. In no way destroying them can become your interest, you can easily understand this. Again, if the different groups of different distinctiveness are not mutually cooperative, it will cause turbulence. In that case every class will exploit the others. In the consequence of this others also will be compelled to do the same in effort to procure for their existence, thus, everyone will indulge in axing others in his own interest. In the reaction of that, the emergence of suicidal hostility will become inevitable; if not there remains being-nourishing proficient regulation.
Now you can easily understand what Dharma means. The code, the ethics or the discipline that upholds every individual by nourishing every particular being according to their respective distinctive characteristics and assuring their security leads towards evolutionary progress, is the significance of Dharma. And to maintain this Dharma, life-lifting culture is essential; having been habituated to which man attains propitious consistency to his being and advances towards progress generation to generation.
And the elementary cause, from which every individual like you from the minutest to the greatest is being evolved, has been called God by the Sages, God who is One and without second.
Therefore, in order to prolong life and to advance towards further evolution, you have to concentrate on something, thereby resisting evil and through ups and downs of your life you may maintain your evolutionary advancing move with concentric, progressive, meaningful integrated consistency of understanding. On that account, to be concentric to some such thing which is uncomprehended, unknown will be like a magic pudding for your real life. The pressing need is, therefore, of some fulfilling seer, to whom these mechanisms have been revealed and who has known and practiced them through His practical realization. The sages called Him Seer the Fulfiller, Lord the Good or Existential Guide. Having been concentric to Whose embodied Being, realizing the glow of the Primordial Cause manifest in His life, we can advance towards evolution. Lord Krishna said about which, ‘Yang Praapya Na Nivarttante Taddhaama Paramang Mana’ (That is my abode, reaching which one doesn’t rebound). It means that our evolution will go on more and more without reversion. In the process of psychic evolution of consciousness realizing Whom there is no dissolution or fall from it, Whoever or However might be of that level or abode, He is our Ideal and Supreme Beloved, Whom we call One without second. This is the sum-total of this ontology.
