In Indian or Hindu - VEDIC religion , we have one of the scriptures named BGAGAVAT GEETA . Most of the people that know anything about Hindu know he GEETA . When there was a war in between 2 sets of cousins ,namely PANDAVAS and KAURAVAS , one of the great warriors from Pandeva was Arjun. When he was standing in the battlefield, and saw all his relatives and friends that were on the opposite side , he was discouraged and dropped his weapons down and decided that he was not going to fight and KILL his relatives and friends and teaches etc. At that time Lord Krishan who was his charioteer, gave him a discourse on the religion and told him that this is DHARM YUDHYA - religious war and he must fight. The question that many have pondered is what is religious war ?
In any was both sided FEEL that their side is righteous and they are right in fighting war. We can talk about any war - for Indians British and Indians and if you go back the King Shivaji and Muslim king Auragjeb. The war that is going on in the middle east each side feels that they are right and the other side is wrong. As outside observer we van have same type of opinions. So how can any war be called DHRAM YUDHY?
I feel that we have to define DHARM ,which is translated as RELIGION. But there are other meanings to the word DHARM. When we say wood floats in water and Iron sinks because that is their DHARM or quality. The conventional use of Dharma is religion and not quality. But when one takes in to account the meaning as the quality then the whole thing becomes different. The quality of SOUL or the reflection of the GOD is to be free . We call the soul enclosed or limited to the body as JIWATMA and it is free and limitless , but due to ignorance , it feels it is limited to the physical body. The physical body and the subtle body limits the ability of the soul to be free. So the DHARMA of soul is to be FREE and LIMITLESS and does not have limits of DESH-LAK- VASTU meaning LOCATION -TIME AND SPECIFIC IDENTITY. So the DHARMA YUDHYA is that of soul with bodily limitation that come with physical body - with it's 5 organs of perception and 5 organs of action and the subtle body -mind intellect and ego . The sole is free but it is covered with ignorance and that limits it and one has to let it be free and that fight is the fight which is described in GEETA .
The war did happen but what Geeta is describing is the religious war HAPPENING IN OUT as described above
