What is the Dharma that we must strive to follow? What is the Dharma that Avatars come to establish? Bhagawan lovingly clarifies for us today.
Dharma is not a thing that can be determined by each and every person, according to one’s whim. Some may say that the dharma that comes out of one’s heart is one’s dharma; how can it become the dharma of God? So, in your heart – not the physical heart but the spiritual heart – you must try to locate and cognise the Principle of the Self. The word “I” belongs to Atma and never to the body. Thus, dharma is that which comes from our heart and which is to be put into practice by us. The vyavaharika dharma or dharma relating to the daily routine changes from day to day. Those things that change from day to day are not real dharma. Dharma is eternal, it is immutable, it is truth. If it is changeable, why should we establish such a dharma? Should we act according to it? Rama has been described in the Ramayana by the statement, Ramo vigrahavan dharmaha – Rama is the embodiment of dharma. Even though Rama had a physical body, the dharma that He lived and set as example and established in the world for eternity is the eternal dharma; it is the Unchanging Truth.
– Summer Showers 1972, Ch 11.
