This second dimension consists of the truly spiritual part, with its emphasis on personal morality, worship and adoration, and the disciplines designed to ensure the spiritual growth of man. These constitute the essential and the invariable and the universal core of religion, while the former form its variable non-essential part, which is also relevant, but only when it does not choke the spirit of the latter.
Indian tradition calls the former the smrti, and the latter the sruti, constitute of a religion, and considers the sruti as eternal and universal in validity and the smrti as local, parochial and temporary in application. Accordingly, the sruti represents the sanatana dharma, eternal religion, which remains, while the smrti represents the Yuga dharma, the religion for a particular Yuga, or age, which changes.
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