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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>General Lectures</h3>
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[[Vanisource:721205 - Lecture Rotary Club - Ahmedabad|721205 - Lecture Rotary Club - Ahmedabad]]
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Dharma is not a type of faith, as it is explained in English dictionary, "A kind of faith." Faith you can change. Today you are Hindu; you can become Christian next day. Or today you are Christian, you can become a Muhammadan next day. So political field also, changing faiths. So dharma does not exactly mean a kind of faith. It is characteristic.

Just like sugar is sweet. That is the characteristic of sugar. If sugar becomes pungent, then that is not sugar; that is something else. It may be some other chemical. When you go to purchase chili, you must test it, whether it is very strongly pungent. You do not expect chili should be sweet; then it is not very first quality chili. Similarly, we have got characteristic, we living entity. We are individual living entities. We have got characteristics. That characteristic is service.

Our the all the ladies and gentlemen who are sitting here, if we ask you what is your characteristic, you'll come to the conclusion that, "My characteristic is to serve." Somebody is serving in the office. Somebody's serving in the government office. Somebody's serving as minister. Somebody's serving as governor.

It is supposed to be that he is master, but actually he's serving. In family also, the head of the family, he's thinking that he's master, but he's servant. He's servant of his wife, of his children, even of his paid servant. Because he has to satisfy everyone. Not only one, but so many members of the family, he has to keep them satisfied; otherwise, they may not be very much happy.

So the nature of living entity is to satisfy other. Paraspara. And that business of satisfying other, serving for others' well-being, that must be sanātana, eternal. Our characteristic, service, is eternal, and that should be eternally engagement. Here, in this material existence, I am serving, but my service is not eternal, because I am changing the body or I changing my profession. Sometimes I am serving this party, sometimes I am serving that party.

So the conclusion should be that sanātana-dharma means that the living entity is eternal; he must seek out his eternal service. That is called sanātana-dharma. Sanātana-dharma does not mean that having a great big tuft and tilaka, or dressing in a certain manner, or . . .

Then everything are changing. That is not sanātana-dharma. Whatever is changeable, that is not sanātana-dharma. Sanātana, try to understand sanātana. Sanātana means eternal, and the living entity, being eternal, he must have some eternal engagement. That is called sanātana-dharma.
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