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nor any end. And when we speak of Sanatan Dharma we must take it for granted on the authority of Sripad Ramanujacharya that it has no beginning nor any end. The thing which has no beginning nor any end must not be any sectarian thing or limited by any boundry. In the light of modern science it will be possible for us to see Sanasan Dharma as the business of all the people of world nay all the living entities of the universe. Non-Sanatan religious faith may have some beginning in the annals of the human society but there cannot be any history of the  Sanatan Dharam  because it continues to remain with the history of the living entities.
When a man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to the particular time and circumstances of birth and thus one claims to be a Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Budhist or any other sect and subsect such designations are Non-Sanatan Dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim or Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu or a Christian etc. but in all circumstances such change of religious faiths does not allow a person to change his eternal engagement of rendering service to other. A Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian in all circumstances, is servant of somebody and thus to profess a particular type of faith is not to be considered as  Sanatan Dharma  but the constant companion of the living being that is  rendering of service  is the Sanatan Dharma.
In the Bhagwat Geeta there are several references in the matter of Sanatanam. Let us see one by one some of the statements of the Geeta and try to take the import of Sanatam Dharma from the authority.
There is a reference of the word Sanatanam in the 10th sloka of the seventh chapter in which the Lord says that he is the eternal fountain head of every thing and therefore, He is Sanatanam. The Fountain Head of everything is discribed in the Upanishad as the Complete Whole. All emanations from the Fountain Head are also complete in themselves and inspite of many such complete units have emanated from the Sanatan Complete the Sanatan Head does not diminish in quality or quantity. That is the nature of Sanatanam unchanged. Anything that wears or tears under the influence of