Is religion popularly known english equivalent of Dharma as understood from Eastern Philosophy of Vedic,Buddhist and Jaina Faith?
Religion: a notion of the transcendent or numinous, often, but not always, in the form of theism
a cultural or behavioural aspect of ritual, liturgy and organized worship, often involving a priesthood, and societal norms of morality (ethos) and virtue (arete)
a set of myths or sacred truths held in reverence or believed by adherents
Religion is a set of social beliefs accompanied by a set of population thus it gains meaning with group activity.
Dharma is something that one is bestowed and one is supposed to repose faith on through his/her set of actions and inactions.
Dharma at the level of metaphysics is a consciousness that makes the existence meaningful.
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