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but they are all particular laws.
Dharma is the ultimate law, the law of all laws. So you cannot pinpoint where it is, although it is everywhere. All special laws are just particular manifestations of this universal law. Mm? gravitation is just a limited expression of it.
So one that holds all laws in itself is called dharma. Dharmadeva means god of the ultimate law. And you have to start being sensitive towards this tao, dharma, the ultimate law. It is a question of sensitivity.
Through intellect you can discover particular laws. Only through sensitivity can you discover the universal law. The universal is not available to the intellect. That's the difference between science and religion.
In India, religion is also called dharma, mm? because it is a discovery of the ultimate law, the universal law. Science will go on discovering but it will never come across the ultimate law it cannot. Its very methodology prohibits it. The very approach is for the particular.
So science becomes more and more specialised, and each branch becomes more and more narrow. First there was only science; then there was physics and chemistry. Now chemistry has many branches -- the organic chemistry and the inorganic chemistry. And so on, so forth; it goes on becoming more and more specific, particular.
Of course any scientific approach knows more, but every day it knows about less and less. It knows more and more, but about less and less -- so it can never come to the universal, because there is no way to come to the universal. It will come to the very particular -- so it can never come to god, because god is the universal law.
So the very methodology of science prohibits it knowing about god, knowing god. And then of course science goes on saying that there is no god. Now this is very irrational. You don't allow the universal -- your very approach is for the particular -- and then you say that there is no universal because it never comes in your net... and you have chosen a net. A certain net catches a certain type of fish. The net of science catches the fish of the particular.
The universal is such a big fish that no net will be
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