Sanatana Dharma

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Sanatana Dharma Anybody who wants to have an idea of Sanatana Dharma should read this book from beginning to end. This book consists of three parts. The first part deals with the basic Hindu Religious Ideas. The second part elucidates general Hindu religious customs and rights. The third part discusses ethical teachings explicitly.

Thus this book may be treated as a hand book of everyone who is interested in Hindu way of life and Sanatana Dharma though there are some controversial statements in this text with whom many scholars do not agree.

Sanatana Dharma means the Eternal Religion, the Ancient Law, and it is based on the Vedas, sacred books given to men many long ages ago. This Religion has also been called the Aryan Religion, because it is the Religion that was given to the first nation of the Aryan Race: Arya means noble, and the name was given to a great race, much finer in character and appearance than the races which went before it in the world’s history. The first families of these people setteled in the northern part of the land now called India, and that part in which they first settled was named Aryāvarța, because these Aryans lived in it. “(The land) from the eastern ocean to the western ocean, between the two mountains (Himavan and Vindhya). the wise call Aryāvarța.”

In later days the Religion was called the Hindu Religion, and this is the name by which it is now usually known. It is the oldest of living Religions. and no other Religion has produced so many great men-great teachers, great writers, great sages, great saints, great kings, great warriors great statesmen, great benefactors, great patriots. The more you know of it, the more you will honour and love it, and the more thankful you will be that you were born into it. But unless you grow up worthy of it, this great and holy Religion will do you no good.