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THE FOUR SETUS |
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| There is another
important aspect of Dharma, which has to be borne in mind. The essence of Dharma is its
absolute objectivity. The man of Dharma has to follow it regardless and irrespective of
his rights and the duties of others to him. Sri Ramachandra is the embodiment of Dharma,
"Ramovigrahavan Dharmah." He had an undoubted right to the throne, according to
the well recognized law of primogeniture among kings, and also by the will of the people
and the wishes of his father. Yet he did his
two-fold duty of keeping his own promise and his duty to his father by enabling him to
fulfil his promise to Kaikeyi. The modern man keenly alive to his rights, sensitive of
their infringement and eager to assert then at all hazards does not; fully appreciate the
standpoint of Indian thought in its view of Dharma as an absolute ideal and its
enunciation of the principles of Dharma as such. In our Parliament at Delhi sometime back
a Bill was sought to be introduced for providing punishment for the offence of adultery
committed by a married woman.
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