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.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.
-Swami Vivekananda