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Conclusion
Marriott has suggested that dharma can be an ethnosociological category to
study and analyze the Indic world that frequently transgresses the world
of religion, environmental ethics, and human social order, as is evident
from my case studies of Swadhyayis. Swadhyayis, like other Hindus, use
dharma to mean both their religious practices and their social duties.
Thus, I suggest that the concept of dharma can function as a bridge
between the ecological notions and environmental ethics of local Hindu
communities and the ecological message related to the planet earth. The
word dharma can be effectively used to translate the ecological awareness
to reach out to the local communities of Hindus based on its meanings
related to duties, ecological order, sustenance, virtues, righteousness, and
religion.
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