July 11, 2025
While Jains and Buddhists do not consider themselves to be vedic, they have derived the word “dharma” from vedic texts. Omkara (of the Sikhs) is also taken from the vedas. The drop of water cannot be called the ocean.
The oldest dharma is vedic dharma and that alone can be described as dharma, not those streams that went in other directions.
While Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma is a religion, the other paths cannot be described as “dharma” anymore since they have deviated (but they can still be called Hindu owing to their roots alone).