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“नकंचित् शाश्वतम् –Na Kanchit Shaashwatam”, i.e., nothing is permanent in the universe. Everything, movable or immovable, is subject to change. This process continues. From the smallest (even invisible or unfelt) level to the global or universal level, the entire process of creation and destruction, one after the other and moment by moment, is under the Eternal Law of Change. It is within its ambit and no one or anything is outside it. Whatever is born, crafted or created, or produced is necessarily subject to end or destruction due to the eternal and unimaginable Law of Change. In very brief, the Law of Change itself is, in fact, immutable or simply without the change.

The Eternal Law of Change is the symbol of dynamism. If there is no dynamism, how will continuity be possible? If the situation remains as it is, everything will stop. Therefore, the action-reaction order –origin, end and re-emergence, is the basic aspect of the Inevitable Law of Change. It is essential for the process of universal operation. Rise-fall, fall-rise, development-destruction, decline-progress, construction-demolition and destruction-construction are essential for this process and it, in fact, reveals the transience, mortality and temporary state of all that is born, crafted, created, generated and produced. The state of the truth of the operation of the universe comes to the fore through this. The Sanatana Dharma accepts the reality of the Eternal Law of Change. The Eternal Law of Change is also established as one of its four fundamentals. Other three basics of the Sanatana Dharma are: a firm belief in the Satya –truth of an Indivisible Whole, to accept the reality of Universal Unity and to keep Ahimsa –non-violence in its true spirit at the centre of conduct, individual and mutual, both.

“नूतनैरुत –Nuutanairuta”, which embodies the noble sentiments like “the life dwelling in new reasoning and action” and “always worth exploring”, is, as I myself believe, the message of the Eternal Universal Law in the form of doing anew, which appears in the Second Mantra of the First Sukta of the Rigveda itself. It calls upon man to always do something new with determination. This is the basis of true development; the real progress comes only from doing anew.

Thousands of years ago, the Rishis-Maharshis, scholars and researchers of the Sanatana Dharma had propounded that in the universe full of mysteries (under the Omnipresent Indivisible Whole or परब्रह्म –Parabrahman), all movable and immovable elements –creatures, matter etc., are the subject of the process of creation, sustenance and destruction that continued under the influence of the Eternal Law of Change. Always or every moment, somewhere the process of creation and somewhere destruction is going on, which is the truth related to the Eternal Law of Change.

Everything in the universe is changing and is ephemeral. The basic idea of the Tenth Shloka of the Ninth Chapter of the Shrimadbhagavadgita, at the centre of which are creation, maintenance and dissolution, should also be taken in this very perspective, “मयाध्यक्षेण प्रकृति: सूयते सचराचरम्/ हेतुनानेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते// –Mayaadhyakshena Prakritih Suuyate Sacharaacharam/ Hetunaanena Kaunteya Jagadviparivartate//”

After hundreds of years of mutual claims and counter-claims, now finally scientists around the world also accept this reality. Science, while accepting the state of the ever-expanding universe, also believes that no creature, matter, movable or immovable element etc. has any existence separate from the Indivisible Whole. Also, nothing and nobody is outside the ambit of the universal Law of Change.

As an essential part of the Indivisible Whole and in obedience to the call of Its ever-flowing Eternal Law of Change and also by coming out of the state of “अशोच्यान् –Ashochyaan”, i. e., “not worthy of grief”   (the Shrimadbhagavadgita, 2: 11; through this entire Shloka man is called upon not to lament the state of life-death –creation-destruction while keeping the eternality of the Law of Change at the centre as this state is under the continuously flowing universal law; it is the process of operating the cosmic order), it is the prime duty of man to always step forward towards doing the new while renouncing the idea of personal attachment, achievement, attainment or gain and keeping the welfare of one and all at the centre. Accepting the only truth of the Indivisible Whole or Totality and at the same time keeping the spirit of universal welfare at the centre, ideological refinement, change in working methods and the path according to the demand of time and circumstances is also the call of this Eternal Law of Change. It also calls for the creation of a conducive environment for this. It is completely dedicated to dynamism and guides one for improving life and attaining the truth eventually. This is, thus, one of the foremost fundamentals of the Sanatana Dharma.