Dharmic Living

Dharma is the law of right living. Unless you live by your own internal standards you can never be happy. When you bend the rules you reduce your chances for true, pure happiness. ‘Flexibility is bending rules without breaking them’, proclaims a smart hoarding, showing a gymnast’s impossible stretch. It all depends on what your internal monitor will allow.

To understand your Dharmic standards, assess yourself by answering to the following questions:

1. Do you judge the moral standards of others?

2. Do you feel any responsibility for the poor, crippled or sick?

3. Are your standards based on what your family practices?

4. Have you made your own decisions about what is honest and right?

5. Are honesty and integrity important to you in your family, with business partners and friends?

6. Do you ever gossip?

7. Do you have a role in seeing that others are protected against unfairness or injustice?

8. Are you concerned with the quality of your family's life?

9. Do you treat others as you want to be treated?

10. Have you fought against injustice to others?