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It is the one who have climbed a particularly steep mountain, who can provide an accurate picture of the route to others to successfuly climb the mountain themselves without fear of death or injury or failure.
Scriptures are similarly created by enlightened masters as a roadmap to help others reach the goal of wise living and enlightenment.
Alas, it is just as true that scriptures also do a lot of harm when they are misrepresented, misunderstood, or simply used unwisely or irresponsibly.
Friends,
CAN THERE BE 'DHARMA' WITHOUT SCRIPTURES?
Everyone is free to respond the way they perceive.
Love & rgds
Dharma was around before scripture, therefore there can be dharma without scripture. What's so difficult about that?
Indeed, one can read the scriptures and completely miss the dharma conveyed therein.Dharma and the Word are not different. So it depends on what is understood by dharma and what is understood by scripture.
Indeed, one can read the scriptures and completely miss the dharma conveyed therein.
I would say no.
Because there is a story and there is an author. The author always eventually looks at the whole scene and says "This has been perfect".
Thanks for saying everyone is free to answer as they perceive.
I would say no.
Because there is a story and there is an author. The author always eventually looks at the whole scene and says "This has been perfect".
Thanks for saying everyone is free to answer as they perceive.
Dictionary meaning of 'dharma'It may be both very easy and very difficult to answer this. Again I will ask what dharma we are talking about? Possibly, in Abrahamic understanding they do not have a word like dharma.
Dharma simply means 'law' and naturally man being part of nature so 'dharma' is about the laws of nature.dharma ˈdɑːmə,ˈdəːmə/Submit noun
1.(in Indian religion) the eternal law of the cosmos, inherent in the very nature of things.
Meaning only after humans evolved and realised that they too are part of existence and have the potential to get out of this evolutionary process for good and these humans found that it can be done in many ways and these ways got written down according to each individual's experience and those documents are 'scriptures'.Dharma was around before scripture, therefore there can be dharma without scripture.
What's so difficult about that?
As far as i know,
Rather than making dharma, scriptures acknowledge dharma. And this makes clear that dharma was present even before scriptures.
It was invented by God itself.Oh, yes. Homo habilis invented 'dharma'.