[Carol Henderson Garcia Culture and customs of India.
][Fact 2]: The faithful shall depart with honor and fame.
[Fact 3]: Additionally, the Amesha Spenta, the six originally abstract terms that were regarded as direct emanations or aspects or "divine sparks" of Ahura Mazda, came to be personified as an archangel retinue.For Sikhs, the word means the "path of righteousness".
[Fact 4]: Thus rta bears a resemblance to the ancient Chinese concept of tao and the Heraclitean, stoic or Christian conception of the logos.This "power" that lies behind nature and that keeps everything in balance became a natural forerunner to the idea of dharma. The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of Dharma's implicit attribution to the "ultimate reality" of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta finds mention:
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When all dharmas are empty, what is endless? What has an end?
What is endless and with an end? What is not endless and not with an end?
What is it? What is other? What is permanent? What is impermanent?
What is impermanent and permanent? What is neither?
Auspicious is the pacification of phenomenal metastasis, the pacification of all apprehending;
There is no dharma whatsoever taught by the Buddha to whomever, whenever, wherever.
--Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, , 25:22-24In Ch'an===Dharma is employed in Ch'an in a specific context in relation to transmission of authentic doctrine, understanding and bodhi; recognized in Dharma transmission.Daena .
[Fact 5]: Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even as a translation for the Hindu and Buddhist term Dharma, often interpreted as "duty" or social order, right conduct, or virtue.
[Fact 6]: Amrit Pahul – Sikh baptism for both men and women – was instituted in 1699 by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru.
[Fact 7]: Further, God pervades in His creation and is omnipresent, but cannot be incarnate.
[Fact 8]: Zoroastrian morality is then to be summed up in the simple phrase, "good thoughts, good words, good deeds" , for it is through these that asha is maintained and druj is kept in check.Through accumulation several other beliefs were introduced to the religion that in some instances supersede those expressed in the Gathas.
[Fact 9]: Such is the Name of the Immaculate Lord.
[Fact 10]: According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with Dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana , and that an individual's life within a class should be organized into defined stages that a natural justice and harmony pervades, the natural world becomes manifest in the concept of rta, which is both 'nature's way' and the order implicit in nature.
