Spiritual am I?

Nice post EverHappy and many wisdom in it.

It is very difficult to define Dharma. Dharma is generally defined as ‘righteousness’ or ‘duty’. Dharma is the principle of righteousness. It is also the principle of unity.

Bhishma says in his instructions to Yudhishthira that whatever creates conflict is Adharma, and whatever puts an end to conflict and brings about unity and harmony is Dharma.

So, anything that helps to unite all and develop pure divine love and universal brotherhood/sisterhood, is Dharma.

But you know what, when a mosquitoe is bitting you its very difficult to see Dharma and be quite about it.

 

I think doing our duty skillfully, selflessly and lovingly without expecting the results of that action is Dharma. Whatever is the action we are doing whether it is spending time with a toddler or spending time with a spiritual seeker, we need to spend the time with complete focus and put the best possible effort on that action. It should be done with no selfish intend and should be done lovingly. Getting up in the morning and feeling bad about going to work on that day is bad. Attending a wedding thinking that they would reciprocate is bad. Spending quality time on every action with full focus and dedication is the best way to describe Dharma.

The best way to accomplish this feet is to synchronize our thoughts, words and deeds. Smiling at someone while thinking inside of us, "Oh Man! I met this guy first thing in the morning and I am sure my day is going to be ruined" is bad. Similarly thinking inside, "how in the world I am going to get rid of this guy?' and telling him, "I always enjoy meeting you" is bad. Also, promising to do something to someone and not fulfilling that promise is bad.

Learned Saints tell us that the meditation can be done in Karma Yoga. There is no need to sit down, close our eyes and concentrate on one thought. It can be done by focusing our attention on one thing at a time, doing it skillfully to our complete satisfaction, without expecting the results and with total devotion and love for that action. Then we are in 24 hour meditation. The life will be simpler and especially, we will have a healthy mind.
We have to remember anything that happens to our mind, it will hurt the body and vice versa.

 

In my view Dharma is doing our duties in every sphere of life....sincerely, without selfish motives and not paying much attention to the result( but we do, isn't it?) to our level best is Dharma. If the result is good we do feel happy and if not let us develop equanimity in accepting success or failure. I agree, we would not be able to it 100%...I am practical, let us try to treat failure in that direction. Let us not brood continuously.

Our consciousness...in simple terms I would like to call it inner voice...guides us in the right direction and advises us. But we do not listen to it sometimes and ask it to shut up. So, let us listen to what inner voice says and perform our duties with concentration and attention to the best of our ability.

There is a lot of conflict in this world due to the bad deeds done by some but the silence of a good person is also equally bad. Keeping silent, not taking any risk in raising our voice or going away from the scene is also equally bad. We may not be able to do many great deeds...but ignoring a person who is hurt on the road or helping an accident victim..we should not look at the other direction and go away from the scene.All these are parts of our Dharma. Dharma is nothing but....try as much as possible...thought, words and deeds should synchronise. Does Dharma look impossible? I don't think so.

There is nothing wrong in material existence, provided we look to our inside existence too. Balance both, give equal attention to both, and then there is nothing wrong with this beautiful world. If we have the inner beauty inside, we will see outer beauty everywhere.