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“Dharma means sustaining your life, meeting your family
obligations, participating in society ...”responsibilities, about working
within the structure to serve yourself
and society.”
There is a universal dharma,
known as sanatana dharma, which is
thought to underlie the very structure
of existence. It is the source of the
fundamental ideas of right and wrong
that are deeply embedded in human
consciousness. But along with that
universal order, we each have our
own unique, individual dharma, or
svadharma, the result of our birth
circumstances, karma, and talents,
and the choices we make in life as it
unfolds for us.
“Dharma [refers to] the actions
that you are engaged in, in this life,
and there are many different levels,”
says Gary Kraftsow, Viniyoga
founder and the author of Yoga for
Transformation. “As a father, my
dharma is to raise up my son. As a yoga
teacher, my dharma is to show up to
class, to give interviews, and to transmit
these teachings. As a citizen of mycountry, part of my dharma is to pay
my taxes. Whatever you are doing,
your dharma is to do it well, to serve
yourself and serve life in the present
moment, to keep moving forward
toward a sense of personal fulfi lment.”
For some, our dharmas refl ect a clear
calling: farmer, teacher, activist, parent,
poet, president. For others, not so much.
But you don’t need to have a calling to
have dharma, Kraftsow says. Dharma
means sustaining your life, meeting your
family obligations, participating in
society—and sometimes even a low--
level McJob can enable you to do all that.
“If you hate your job so much that it’s
sucking the life out of you, it may not be
dharmic for you,” he says. “But realising
your dharma sometimes means
accepting where you are.”
Still, dharma can be a moving target,
especially here in the West, where—in
our ideal world, at least—we’re not
bound by caste, family, gender, or racial
roles (those, too, are forms of dharma).
And it generally involves honouring your