Dharma is that which sustains life and order in all their forms, cosmic, human, animal and divine. It is a secular concept in the sense that it arises from no alleged divine revelation but from a study of the human person in all the dimensions of human existence (which are certainly not merely material). The concepty of Dharma is not religious or anti-religious; it is secular. But, and here confusion begins to multiply even within India, the word Dharma has been used to embody the western concept of "religion", and therefore secularity ahs been understood to be anti-Dharmic. But the confusion orginates in the West, where the concepty of religion (from a Christian point of view a very suspect concept) was used to explain what the invaders found in India.