Dharma is a seminal concept not only in Hinduism but in all religions. Indeed, the term Dharma is often taken as a synonym for religion. Dharma is that which holds things together and it is a concept that applies to all the multifarious fields of human thought and activity. This book presents nineteen articles by eminent scholars and savants that explore that various facets of Dharma.
By the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and would exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world
-Swami Vivekananda