Overview
- Addressing the Vihar Sevak Urja Milan in Mumbai on January 18, Mohan Bhagwat said dharma governs the entire universe and guides individual conduct.
- He argued that India will remain a 'Vishwaguru' so long as it is guided by dharma, calling this spiritual knowledge a distinctive civilizational inheritance.
- Bhagwat framed dharma as broader than religion, citing examples such as water’s duty to flow and fire’s duty to burn, and said a state may be secular but living beings cannot be without dharma.
- He urged volunteers to relinquish ego by seeing their efforts as God's work and cautioned against pride with an anecdote about a potter's donkey that mistook reverence for itself.
- Explaining the RSS’s role, he said spiritual figures are the true leaders and described swayamsevaks as protectors who 'guard the door' to support them.