Sanatana Dharma – The Upanishads noticed dharma because the common precept of regulation, order, concord, all in all reality, that sprang first from Brahman.
Verily, that which is Dharma is reality, Due to this fact they are saying of a person who speaks reality, “He speaks the Dharma,” or of a person who speaks the Dharma, “He speaks the Fact.”, Verily, each this stuff are the identical. —(Brh. Upanishad, 1.4.14) (2)
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