What does it mean?
What does Dharma mean?
Dharma is The right thing to do, in your particular life, right now.
Where it comes from
Bhagavad Gita · Patanjali · Buddha · Indian synthesis · 1500 BCE onward. The word lives in the long lineage of purpose-oriented practice, but its specific shape is unmistakably India — and that shape is part of the answer.
What the practice actually is
Dharma is the most translated and most mistranslated word in Indian thought. It is not religion. It is not duty in the dull civic sense. It is the right action — for you, in your nature, at this stage of your life, with the people in front of you. The Gita is a single conversation about a man frozen on a battlefield, a…
If you want to go deeper
A short definition is a doorway, not a room. The full practice — the framework, the daily tools, the verses or maxims, the warnings, what to do today — lives in the concept hub below.