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	'''Dharma''' ({{Sanskrit\|m., धर्म}} ''dharma''; {{Pali}}: ''dhamma'', from ''dhṛ'' "to hold, to support", related to {{Latin\|firmus}} "firm, stable, established" - and hence "law") in [[~~w:Hinduism\|~~Hinduism]] refers to mores, law and ethical and religious obligations, i.e. it is an expression for moral law and is seen as being particularly connected with [[w:Vishnu\|Vishnu]]. In [[~~w:Buddhism\|~~Buddhism]], it is primarily understood to mean the Buddha's teaching of the [[~~w:Four Noble Truths\|~~Four Noble Truths]]. In later Hinduism, the term Dharma replaced the term '''Rita''' ({{Sanskrit\|n., ऋत}} ''[[w:ṛta\|ṛta]]'' "truth, law, order"), which was central in the [[w:Vedic period\|Vedic period]] and denoted both the ''natural order'' and the ''moral order'' of people and society and is closely linked to the two deities [[Mitra]] and [[Varuna]], who appeared as their guardians and custodians<ref>http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/varuna.html</ref>. Tied to Rita is the order of the [[Heaven]]s and the [[Earth]] and of all beings, [[humans]], [[animal]]s, [[plant]]s and [[gods]].		'''Dharma''' ({{Sanskrit\|m., धर्म}} ''dharma''; {{Pali}}: ''dhamma'', from ''dhṛ'' "to hold, to support", related to {{Latin\|firmus}} "firm, stable, established" - and hence "law") in [[Hinduism]] refers to mores, law and ethical and religious obligations, i.e. it is an expression for moral law and is seen as being particularly connected with [[w:Vishnu\|Vishnu]]. In [[Buddhism]], it is primarily understood to mean the Buddha's teaching of the [[Four Noble Truths]]. In later Hinduism, the term Dharma replaced the term '''Rita''' ({{Sanskrit\|n., ऋत}} ''[[w:ṛta\|ṛta]]'' "truth, law, order"), which was central in the [[w:Vedic period\|Vedic period]] and denoted both the ''natural order'' and the ''moral order'' of people and society and is closely linked to the two deities [[Mitra]] and [[Varuna]], who appeared as their guardians and custodians<ref>http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/varuna.html</ref>. Tied to Rita is the order of the [[Heaven]]s and the [[Earth]] and of all beings, [[humans]], [[animal]]s, [[plant]]s and [[gods]].

	According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], Dharma is the '''law of the soul''', the [[law of destiny]] recognised in clear [[I-consciousness]] and subsequently consciously carried out by the [[I]]. The further the true self-knowledge of [[man]] progresses, the more he can become the conscious executor and shaper of his [[destiny]] out of the insight into the spiritual developmental necessities of his individual being. The [[fate]] working from the unconscious depths of the soul, the [[karma]], thus gradually becomes the conscious law of the soul, which the individual human spirit gives itself. It is precisely this conscious law of the human soul that is designated by the Indian term dharma. The next goal of human development is to transform karma more and more into dharma in the course of [[repeated earth lives]]. Once this goal has been achieved, man, as Buddha first expressed it, no longer needs any further earthly embodiments for his future development, but progresses from then on along a purely spiritual path of development.		According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], Dharma is the '''law of the soul''', the [[law of destiny]] recognised in clear [[I-consciousness]] and subsequently consciously carried out by the [[I]]. The further the true self-knowledge of [[man]] progresses, the more he can become the conscious executor and shaper of his [[destiny]] out of the insight into the spiritual developmental necessities of his individual being. The [[fate]] working from the unconscious depths of the soul, the [[karma]], thus gradually becomes the conscious law of the soul, which the individual human spirit gives itself. It is precisely this conscious law of the human soul that is designated by the Indian term dharma. The next goal of human development is to transform karma more and more into dharma in the course of [[repeated earth lives]]. Once this goal has been achieved, man, as Buddha first expressed it, no longer needs any further earthly embodiments for his future development, but progresses from then on along a purely spiritual path of development.

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'''Dharma''' ({{Sanskrit|m., धर्म}} ''dharma''; {{Pali}}: ''dhamma'', from ''dhṛ'' "to hold, to support", related to {{Latin|firmus}} "firm, stable, established" - and hence "law") in [[w:Hinduism|Hinduism]] refers to mores, law and ethical and religious obligations, i.e. it is an expression for moral law and is seen as being particularly connected with [[w:Vishnu|Vishnu]]. In [[w:Buddhism|Buddhism]], it is primarily understood to mean the Buddha's teaching of the [[w:Four Noble Truths|Four Noble Truths]]. In later Hinduism, the term Dharma replaced the term '''Rita''' ({{Sanskrit|n., ऋत}} ''[[w:ṛta|ṛta]]'' "truth, law, order"), which was central in the [[w:Vedic period|Vedic period]] and denoted both the ''natural order'' and the ''moral order'' of people and society and is closely linked to the two deities [[Mitra]] and [[Varuna]], who appeared as their guardians and custodians<ref>http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/varuna.html</ref>. Tied to Rita is the order of the [[Heaven]]s and the [[Earth]] and of all beings, [[humans]], [[animal]]s, [[plant]]s and [[gods]].

According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], Dharma is the '''law of the soul''', the [[law of destiny]] recognised in clear [[I-consciousness]] and subsequently consciously carried out by the [[I]]. The further the true self-knowledge of [[man]] progresses, the more he can become the conscious executor and shaper of his [[destiny]] out of the insight into the spiritual developmental necessities of his individual being. The [[fate]] working from the unconscious depths of the soul, the [[karma]], thus gradually becomes the conscious law of the soul, which the individual human spirit gives itself. It is precisely this conscious law of the human soul that is designated by the Indian term dharma. The next goal of human development is to transform karma more and more into dharma in the course of [[repeated earth lives]]. Once this goal has been achieved, man, as Buddha first expressed it, no longer needs any further earthly embodiments for his future development, but progresses from then on along a purely spiritual path of development.

{{GZ|Through the Buddha, humanity has become what the soul can find as its own law, what it can establish in order to purify itself and organise itself upwards to a high moral height such as can be attained on earth. The law of the soul, Dharma, was proclaimed by the Buddha, was proclaimed in such a way as man can find it out of the human soul itself at the highest stage of development of human nature. And Buddha was the one who first extracted it.|114|116f}}

== Literature ==

* [[Annie Besant]]: ''Dharma'', The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1918
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Lukas-Evangelium'', [[GA 114]] (1985) {{Lectures|114}}

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