How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
The dharma of one's station.
Duties differ by age and role — student, householder, forest-dweller, renunciant — one law, many shapes.
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Ahimsa — do no harm.
Non-injury as the first discipline: in thought, word, and act. Gandhi took it from here to the world, and the world's protest movements took it from him.
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Pursue the four aims.
Dharma, artha, kama, moksha — rightness, prosperity, pleasure, liberation. The tradition's startling claim: all four are legitimate, in season, in proportion.
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The guest is God.
Atithi devo bhava — the stranger at the door is treated as divinity arriving unannounced. Hospitality as theology, practiced at the household scale.
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