Practical dharma
One of the most misunderstood concepts these days is the idea of dharma (and other related terms like karma ). Dharma is variously translated as "duty", "righteousness", "ethics", "divine law", and even "religion"-- all of which, are incorrect definitions. Dharma is the most fundamental of the four "drivers" or purusharthas of human behaviour: dharma , artha , kama , and moksha . The most accurate translation I can give for these terms respectively, are: sustainability , capability , agency , and liberation . The term dharma comes from the root dhrt - which means something that sustains or prevails. Dharma refers to the property of a system of being, that remains invariant through the life cycle of the system. Dharma is what gives us our resilience to prevail across varying, adverse conditions and not be consumed by causal forces. Dharma is not just a property of "living" beings-- it is a characteristic of all