What is the Core of Sanatana Dharma
What is the unchanging core of Sanatana Dharma - an idea, an institution, a worldview, or a value system? Bodha's most foundational research question.
We often hear the phrase – “the core of Sanatana dharma”. But we also get conflicting explanations about what is that core. Some say that the core is an institution like varnashrama dharma. Some say that the core is an idea like satya or ahimsa. Sometimes the views are not just different but also conflicting. The scholars who study the great texts of Sanatana dharma see core differently than the practitioners who know Sanatana dharma only in practice. Some see a historical arc as its defining feature and some see its core only in its ahistoricity.
So the big question is - what is the core of Sanatana dharma? An idea? A philosophy? An institution? A worldview? A value system? A belief system? A manual of dos and don’ts? Or a varying mixture of all or many of these? This big question explores all this in depth and range.
