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knowledge; its branches spread out far into the field of action.
        Like the Ashwattha tree mentioned in the Gita, which has its roots
        above and its branches below, this dharma is based on knowledge
        and exhorts one to action. Freedom from attachment is the foun-
        dation of this vast tree-mansion, dynamism is its walls and roof,
        and liberation its tower and summit. The whole life of humanity
        is sheltered by this immense tree-mansion of the Hindu dharma.
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        Dharma and the Yugas
            The right order of human life as of the universe is preserved
        according to the ancient Indian idea by each individual being fol-
        lowing faithfully his swadharma, the true law and norm of his na-
        ture and the nature of his kind and by the group being, the or-
        ganic collective life, doing likewise. The family, clan, caste, class,
        social, religious, industrial or other community, nation, people are
        all organic group beings that evolve their own dharma and to fol-
        low it is the condition of their preservation, healthy continuity,
        sound action. There is also the dharma of the position, the func-
        tion, the particular relation with others, as there is too the dharma
        imposed by the condition, environment, age,   yugadharma, the
        universal religious or ethical dharma, and all these acting on the
        natural dharma, the action according to the Swabhava, create the
        body of the Law. The ancient theory supposed that in an entirely
        right and sound condition of man, individual and collective, — a
        condition typified by the legendary Golden Age, Satya Yuga, Age
        of Truth, — there is no need of any political government or State
        or artificial construction of society, because all then live freely ac-
        cording to the truth of their enlightened self and God-inhabited
        being and therefore spontaneously according to the inner divine
        Dharma. The self-determining individual and self-determining
        community living according to the right and free law of his and its
        being is therefore the ideal. But in the actual condition of human-

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