The dharma, as Robert Lingat asserts "draws the eternal laws that underpin the world". "This order is objective, inherent in the nature of things; the gods are only its guardians".  To flow in the hive of the dharma "permits man to fully realise his personal destiny".
Today, it is difficult to believe in a lex aeterna  or even in a global ethics, shared beyond cultural boundaries.  And yet it is possible- with faith in reason not in political or religious authority- to think of a lifestyle worthy of the 'pleromatic' man, that is to say the man creatively and conservatively turned towards the idea of 'the fullness of being'. 

Luigi Lombardi Vallauri

From 1970 he was the Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Florence. From 1976 to 1998 he taught at the Catholic University of Milan, from which he was dismissed for heterodoxy. From 1973 to 1977 he was Director of the Institute for Legal Documentation at the CNR in Florence. From 1996 to 2000 he was President of the Italian Society for Legal and Political Philosophy.
His studies span a wide range of historical, theoretical and philosophic-legal subjects. He has published numerous works including Terre. Terra del Nulla, Terra degli Uomini, Terra dell'Oltre (1989), Logos dell'Essere, Logos della Norma (1999) and Nera Luce (2001).  These are profound studies of the fundamentals of general and religious philosophy. He lays the foundations of a carefully considered and practiced mysticism, which lies at the intersection between eastern spirituality and western science/art. In 1979 he set up, and continues to lead, meditation groups that explore the possibility of a contemplative life commensurate with modern knowledge.