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**Sthiradarshti: The True Form of Mam-Dharma**
(493) It strives to bring the soul back to its natural state of Dharma, and does not allow any obstacles or harm to come to it. The supreme Dharma-moorti, Shrimad Rajchandraji, has described the experience of the soul similar to that of the father:
"Except for the evolution of the soul, the mind is disturbed by other subjects. ... The desire remains only in the state of being in the unchanging form of the soul. ... It is indifferent to all other results except the result of the soul."
–Shrimad Rajchandra, Patrank 492.
Dharma means the nature of the object. "Dharma is the nature of the object." The nature of the soul is Atma-Dharma. Knowledge, vision, and conduct, or simply a pure knowing feeling, is the nature of the soul, so to live in it is Dharma. This is the true Dharma. Or as said in Shri Pravachansar:
"Conduct is Dharma, Dharma is samya, and samya is the result of the soul without attachment and disturbance." Here, "conduct in its form is conduct, meaning activity in its own time. It is Dharma because of its nature. Meaning, it is the pure illumination of consciousness. And it is samya because of its inherent nature. And samya is the result of the soul, which is completely free from all attachment and disturbance arising from the rise of delusion in vision and attachment in conduct." Thus, conduct, Dharma, and samya are all synonymous.
Thus, the knowledge of the soul, the vision of the soul, and the conduct of the soul – these three jewels, the pure Atma-Dharma, are constantly used by the Samyagdarshi jiva, just as no obstacles reach them. The meaning is that it strives to make the soul stay in its pure use as much as possible. This is the true form of Dharma. The rest of the types of practical Dharma are good, virtuous, only if they are conducive to the above-mentioned decisive feeling-Dharma. Without feeling, they are all useless. (See pp. 244-245) The whole world goes around saying "Dharma Dharma", but it does not know the essence of Dharma. Only a few know it. The essence of Dharma is what was said above – to live in one's own nature. When the body-consciousness is abandoned, the soul-consciousness from the body
_x "स्वरूपे चरणं चारित्रं स्वसमयप्रवृत्तिरित्यर्थः । तदेव वस्तुस्वभावत्वाद्धर्मः । शुद्धचैतन्यप्रकाशनमित्यर्थः । तदेव च यथावस्थितात्मगुणत्वात्साम्यम् । साम्यं तु दर्शनचारित्रमोहनीयोदयापादितसमस्तमोहक्षोभाभावादत्यन्तनिर्विकारो जीवस्य परिणाम.।"
–Shri Amritchandracharyaji's Commentary on Pravachansar