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To me, 'Religion' and 'Dharma' does not mean the same thing. While religion is introduced by human being, Dharma is predefined by some inherent characteristics. Human-being usually manifests human-characteristics (or Dharma); animals follow animal-Dharma. Dharmic-paths may sometimes crisscross and overlap between these two extreme characteristics.
Religion is totally man-made and therefore doubts exist about its authenticity. Attempts are being made to get to the truth about religion. When religion was introduced, its only intention was to gain dominance over other religions, and, for that matter, they adopted all means to achieve the goal. Some religions reward people for converting others - no matter how they do it. As a result, they use force, coercion, deception, etc. to achieve the goal. This is why religions are nothing but 'isms' or 'cults.' No matter how we dress a religion, it will divide and segregate people by erecting invisible wall around us all. That wall will prevent our universal love for other human-beings (one of the tenets of human-Dharma). No matter how people sugar coat their own religion, it will induce hatred towards others, who happen to belonging to a different religion. When someone does not follow any religion that does not mean that he is not following his Dharma. In
fact, people who do not belong to any contemporary religions may be the most Dharmic human-being on earth, merely because they posses less hatred toward other human-beings. To me, the best Dharma for a human-being is to follow human-Dharma, which is called the manab-Dharma in Bengali language, espoused by Swami Vivekananda from India.
Thanks.
Jiten Roy
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