sanatana dharma was designed as a way of life designed to best ensure the continuity of humanity on this earth and provide the entire population with spiritual sustenance. in current-day usage, the term "sanatana dharma" is diminished and used to emphasize a "traditional” or "sanatani" ("eternalist") outlook in contrast to the socio-political hinduism embraced by movements such as the arya samaj. in sharp contrast to the efforts by lahore sanatana dharma sabha to preserve the hindu tradition against the onslaught of reform, now it is being stressed that sanatan dharma cannot be rigid, it has to be inclusive without excluding the best and totality of knowledge to guide the karmic process, especially as sanatan has no beginning and no end.