Sat Sanatan Dharma
The Vedic culture is known as Sanatan or the eternal culture. Sat Sanatan Dharma is not a religion in the sense of a specific religious doctrine, as most of today's religions are. The latter have one person, a founder, whose spiritual experiences serve as a foundation for that particular belief. Sat Sanatan Dharma is based on spiritual experiences of tens of thousands of spiritually enlightened individuals, both men and women, called Rishis (from the word dris - to see) that are transmitting the message of spirituality. The important factors in this regard are kal – time, and des - space, which means that this culture was and is conforming itself to the specific time and space circumstances. Its founders and transmitters - the Rishis - chose to remain anonymous, hence they named themselves according to their role, as for example Vyasa - the compiler, the translator, the one who collected knowledge.
This process made it possible for their realisations to become connected with the earlier teachings in a simple, immediate and nonjudgmental manner, conforming to the particular time and space requirements and transmitted through an unbroken chain of a Master-Disciple relationship - Guru parampara.
The Vedic culture is known as Sanatan or the eternal culture. Sat Sanatan Dharma is not a religion in the sense of a specific religious doctrine, as most of today's religions are. The latter have one person, a founder, whose spiritual experiences serve as a foundation for that particular belief. Sat Sanatan Dharma is based on spiritual experiences of tens of thousands of spiritually enlightened individuals, both men and women, called Rishis (from the word dris - to see) that are transmitting the message of spirituality. The important factors in this regard are kal – time, and des - space, which means that this culture was and is conforming itself to the specific time and space circumstances. Its founders and transmitters - the Rishis - chose to remain anonymous, hence they named themselves according to their role, as for example Vyasa - the compiler, the translator, the one who collected knowledge.
This process made it possible for their realisations to become connected with the earlier teachings in a simple, immediate and nonjudgmental manner, conforming to the particular time and space requirements and transmitted through an unbroken chain of a Master-Disciple relationship - Guru parampara.
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