Paying Your Debts

There is also a general dharma incumbent on all human beings. Each of us has five duties or debts we need to repay:

1. We must fulfill our obligations to the gods for their beings. Each of us has five them with the appropriate rituals.

2.The tremendous debt we owe to our parents and teachers must be rapid by supporting them and by having children and passing on our knowledge in turn.

3. We fulfill our duty to our guests by treating them as if they were deities visiting our home.

4. We have a debt to all other human beings as well. This can be rapid by treating each with the respect he or she is due.

5. Also, we have an obligation to all other living beings. We must offer them our good will and food or other types of help when appropriate.

There are two preoccupations in Hinduism : freedom and responsibility. While tantrics, and renunciates launch into the freedom of spirit, Hindus who choose to remain in the workaday world are very conscious of their karmic debs and the profound interconnection and interdependence of the living in the many different planes of reality. Dharma defines their place in the world order and shows them how to live together in mutual respect and support.