Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

====================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- 19/04/2020. 1.Introduction -2. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *Now, primarily at present, we are concerned with a very important subject the principle of life which can guide every individual, whether of the East or the West, North or South, of today or tomorrow, under every condition.  #Is there such a principle?  ##We have in the Dharma-Sastras, or the law codes and ethical mandates, mention made of Dharma, known as Samanya-Dharma and the Visesha-Dharma.  **Dharma means a principle of behaviour and action, a law, a regulation, a rule.  ***And it is Samanya or Visesha, i.e., general as well as particular.  ###The general Dharma or the generally applicable principle of life upon every individual is called Samanya-Dharma, but that which varies from individual to individual, from one class to another class etc. i

=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09/04/2020. 1.Introduction -1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In all principles which guide human life, there are two aspects known as the 'exoteric' and the 'esoteric'.  The formal routine of daily life is mostly guided by what we call the exoteric principles which have a working value and a validity within the realm of human action. In this sense, we may say that the values which are called exoteric are relative, inasmuch as every activity in human life is relative to circumstances.  Hence, they do not have eternal value, and they will not be valid persistently under every condition in the vicissitudes of time. This principle which is exoteric, by which what we mean is the outward relative principle of life, becomes, tentatively, the guiding line of