VISION of ILS LAW COLLEGE -DHARME SARV PRATISHTHAM

 

MOTTO – VISION OF ILS LAW COLLEGE IS

“DHARME SARV PRATISHTHAM”

 Time to understand ,introspect and deliberate   the meaning and philosophy of the vision of ILS Law College. This demands basic understanding of the word Dharma.So we need to refer to Bharat Ratan Professor PV Kane, Motto of Supreme Court of India and Constituent Assembly Debates  and Sri Aurobindo

 

Bharat Ratan Professor PV Kane in his. History of Dharmashastra clearly rights that the translation of word Dharma is not possible in any of the languages spoken on earth. The reason he underlines is that no Civilization on this planet has ever experimented or dared to live keeping spirituality at the centre of life. Prof Kane was Judge of Bombay High Court, Sr Adv Supreme Court , Rajya Sabha member .

 Debate is often created regarding the word Dharma. The reason for this is that there is lack of understanding of the word Dharma and its true meaning. Due to this, there is a gulf  between Indian culture and scriptures. At the time of Emperor Ashoka, the word dharma was understood from the Greek word eusebeia, which was limited to moral conduct. For this reason the West could never understand the true meaning of the word Dharma used in India. This mistake continued in modern times and today the word religion has been used in the West for the word religion, which is incomplete because the word religion is limited to sect and sect. The error has been perpetuated for 2500 years, first through the word eusebeia and today through the word religion. Both the western words use  the word religion  for Dharma, due to which neither the westerners could understand the true significance and meaning of the word Dharma nor the modern education of India could give a comprehensive understanding of Dharma. Another example of misuse  is the  the word secular in Hindi. Despite knowing that the word Panthnirpeksh  has been used for secular in the Constitution. Out of the four Purushartha , Dharma has been mentioned a one purusharth . To understand India, knowledge of three words is necessary: Yagya , Brahma and Dharma. In India, Dharma means a person's behavior according to the country, time and situation, which is based on spirituality. Therefore, religion is not limited to eusebeia and religion.

 

Interestingly यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः॥ (IAST: Yato Dharmastato Jayaḥ)
Where there is righteousness (dharma), there is victory (jayah) is the motto of the Supreme Court of India.Source of this motto is the Mahabharat.

That Dharma not the ruler has been the sovereign in the land of Vedas. This was asserted by Dr   Radha Krishnan in reply to Objective Resolution of Pt Neehru. He  said  on the concept of Dharma on  20 Jan1947, in  Constituent Assembly Debates "When a few merchants from the north went down to the south, one of the Princes of the Deccan asked the question. "Who is your King?" The answer was, "Some of us are governed by assemblies, some of us by kings."

Kecid deso ganadhina kecid rajadhina.

Panini, Megasthenes and Kautilya refer to the Republics of Ancient India.The Great Buddha belonged to the Republic of Kapilavastu. Much has been said about the sovereignty of the people. We have held that the ultimate sovereignty rests with the moral law, with the conscience of humanity. People as well as kings are subordinate to that. Dharma, righteousness, is the king of kings.

Dharmam Kshatrasya Kshatram.

It is the ruler of both the people and the rulers themselves. It is the sovereignty of the law which we have asserted."

  

 Sri Aurobindo writes on the concept and integral view of Dharma. (CWSA Volume 20)Sri Aurobindo asserts that" the  Dharma, at once religious law of action and deepest law of our nature, is not, as in the Western idea, a creed, cult  or ideal inspiring an ethical and social rule; it is the right law of functioning of our life in all its parts. The tendency of man  to seek after a just and perfect law of his living finds its truth and its justification in the Dharma. Every thing indeed has its  dharma, its law of life imposed on it by its nature; but for man the dharma is the conscious imposition of a rule of ideal living  on all his members."

 Last but no the least Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Motto is "Ramo vigrahavan dharmah"  (Lord Rama is the embodiment of religion), best to understand what dharma means in Indian culture, civilization ,heritage and spirituality.

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF FOUNDATION OF ILS LAW COLLEGE .