{"id":292,"date":"2010-10-10T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:59:47","slug":"the-meaning-of-dharma-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-dharma-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Dharma &#8211; Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of California at Berkeley,<br \/>\nProfessor Sherri Roush&#8217;s class on Epistemology<br \/>\nSep 24, 2010 (Part 2 of 9)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t20Xv82OHQQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t20Xv82OHQQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In the dictionary, the Sanskrit word <em>dharma<\/em> is translated as &#8220;religion&#8221;, and in the West, religion means a kind of belief or faith &#8211; &#8220;I believe in Jesus, I believe in Buddha, I believe in Mohammed, I believe I&#8217;m going to heaven or to hell or to purgatory.&#8221; I believe something, but it&#8217;s not factual, or that is to say, it&#8217;s not supported very well by modern-day logic, reason and argument and authority, or science. &#8230; Dharma actually means the characteristic of a thing which cannot be removed, and it specifically applies to human beings. But we can give some analogy. Sugar, the dharma of sugar is sweet. If it&#8217;s not sweet, it&#8217;s not sugar. &#8230;The dharma of human beings is service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of California at Berkeley, Professor Sherri Roush&#8217;s class on Epistemology Sep 24, 2010 (Part 2 of 9) In the dictionary, the Sanskrit word dharma is translated as &#8220;religion&#8221;, and in the West, religion means a kind of belief or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-dharma-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness\/\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[61,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}