Sanatan Dharma

Sanatan Dharma

Children call, “Mother, love me even more.”

Bhaktas: “Devi, Neti Neti, I want only you

That supreme knowable bliss, dear goddess,

source of religion, mother of faith.”

His wife wanting (a dear) sends Him away. We and

Sita were lost till Govinda sang karma yog to us.

In That ashram of egoless renunciation, Agni, lit the deep

for salvation from darkness to That satya, jyotir, amratam.

Hermits weep for the world misunderstood, “Ham so

Ham so.” Shiva answered, “Soham, tat tvam asi.”

So Gyan praised the world, “ Poornimadam, So ham

So ham.” “Bhakto, Mama Dharma,” answers Brahman.

Manu asks of Vyasa, “How hard is this universe diverse:

Purush [Prakriti : multiple] one.” God, so many stones

in the river of daily life! And Raja Ganesha, munching ladoos,

dances away the obstacles clarifying our souls for moksha.

All That Ved, the metareligious hope of seekers, is

AUM the Pranava of Prana, the arrow to Godhead.

For Hinduism is That which yokes the world to the way

In Bhakti, Karma, Gyana, Raja from atman to paratman.

(If only we open to That)

shanti, shanti, shantihi.

Hinduism is Mother’s love.

When we are children we want our mother to be the best of all mothers. If we don’t have this we are lost. As we grow we understand that our mother is human and there are many other mothers like ours. Then we begin a search for a transcendental state that explains our mother’s love for us.

Marriage offers us a chance to look at that love in giving love, and this is greater. But in this we learn to give ourselves without attachment, renouncing results. If we don’t have this we are lost. Now, given to a world of dualism, we need a deep true faith that guides us from untruth to truth, darkness to light, and mortality to immortality.

And as our ego feels itself crashing under the weight of worldly living we cry out to that transcendental love: I suffer, I suffer! So we are given vision to move us forward: we are not forsaken, we are loved deeper still than we can conceive and we belong to a greater existence than we can perceive. If we don’t have this we are lost.

Still our ego clings and our mind sees obstacles and impediments keeping us apart. Life’s complexities still overwhelm. And so yet again the mother sends to us a child (perhaps a grandchild) with whom our obstacles and the heaviness of trying is set aside by simply the act of loving doing. If we don’t have this we are lost.

All of our Vedas, however, are not a religion. Hinduism loves all of her children and she guides them all by giving an understanding of how we seek and love her. She is the mother to and for all. She teaches her children to love well together by a meta-religious understanding. It is not whether you love through a name, a scripture, or a heritage. It is that we all need to explore Profound Faithfulness, Right Action, Real Understanding, and The Way itself of seeking. Then we are not lost for we are with her and she is the hope of all.