{"product_id":"2940013912861","title":"DHARMA","description":"The fundamental thought of the people of the East - has been the thought embodied in that one word \"Dharma\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery man has his Dharma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what does Dharma mean? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt means the obligations into which every man is born, the obligations which surround him from the moment of his birth. The obligations to the family, the obligations to the community, the obligations to the nation — these are the Dharma into which every human being comes by the gateway of birth It is not an arbitrary thing but a natural one. It is not a thing which is created, but it is a thing which comes out of the long course of evolution. And out of that fundamental idea of Dharma comes the thought that the first thing in human life which makes it possible is the fact that that obligation is recognized and righteously discharged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the baby is born into the family, helpless, unable to feed itself, lying there without strength, without ability, naked, feeble, what is it that preserves the life of the babe? It is the duty of the mother and of the father, the duty of the elder to the younger, the sense of obligation which surrounds, helps, guards and preserves the babe through the years of childhood and of youth: out of that discharge of duty to the child, grows the obligation of the child to the family and the community. The elders guard the child in infancy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe child in its manhood must repay the obligations in its turn. Thus you come to the idea of Manu of the debts which every man is bound to pay; the debt to the Devas for giving him the whole of the natural advantages, the whole of the gifts of nature by which alone life is possible; the debt to the ancestors whose labors he has inherited, and by the fruits of whose progress his life is rendered possible to-day; the debt to the human beings around him; to the animals below him; his debt to the Sages of the past; all these he comes into; they make the obligations into which he is born, which he must pay back by the useful life of the man, the father and the citizen. Out of that idea of human duty, out of that recognition of human obligation, out of the realization that we are beings on whom duty has a claim—out of that grows the stability and the orderly progress of human society.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165481025776,"sku":"2940013912861","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013912861_p0.jpg?v=1763601278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013912861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}