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category he gives the illustration of the Rajaputra who leads a life of material happiness
here only and does not care for the future. For the second category he gives the example
of the Rishi. For the third he cites the illustration of the good man of the world and for
the last category he gives the example of the cruel hunter. Thus Dharma gives
coherence and direction to the different activities of life. It is a complete code of
life, the harmony of the whole man, who finds the right way for the just law of living. But higher than Dharma is the great Ideal of spiritual freedom, which
ennobles
the whole life of the individual and the whole order of society. As G. H. Mees put it in
his Dharma and Society, Moksha is tilt,
kingdom of God, while Dharma is the Kingdom of God on earth. Hence according to Indian
thought the four purusharthas exhaust all the elements of the fundamental aspirations of
an individual who wants to lead a good and well-ordered life on earth.
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