Swadharma refers to one's responsibilities based on their role or identity, while paradharma refers to assuming responsibilities outside of one's role. Conflicts can arise when paradharma is pursued due to ambition over swadharma. It is best to retain one's unique identity while relating to others, rather than assuming another's role. When migrating between cultures, one must be skillful in ensuring minimal friction and maximal collective satisfaction by understanding different identities and practices. The highest manifestation is shifting one's mindset from narrow identities to broader, more inclusive ones.

1. Swadharma and Paradharma
All authentic responses to the question, "Who am I?", can be seen as one's worldly identities. Swadharma refers to one’s ‘life supportive’ responsibilities by virtue of one’s scenario specific role or identity; Paradharma refers to assumed responsibilities (and/or decision making abilities and rights) of the ‘other’ or, toe stepping in short, and driven mostly by ambition, greed, etc. Conflict and Confluence of Interests[1] can be ethical or unethical depending on whether motives and actions are based on Swadharma or Paradharma respectively. All of us are players in the field of

2. worldly identities. We are constantly engaged in doing justice to our identities, reaching out to peer identities, and stepping up to a higher identity with higher identity responsibilities depending on lower identity responsibilities in a hierarchy; all this can be seen as falling within the ambit of Swadharma as long as the overlap of responsibilities is seen as acceptable. However, if one assumes the role of one’s peer or higher or lower identity and is seen as unacceptable by the 'other', that could be construed as Paradharma and is to be avoided. A skillful teacher comes from a higher identity relative to the student's identity of a seeker, but pretends to be only slightly more knowledgeable than the student, in keeping with one's Swadharma to make the learning process a game. Parent(s) feeding the baby until the baby can feed oneself can be seen as Swadharma. Let’s take the example of teams A and B; in the name of reaching out to team B, if team A member dresses up in the uniform of team B, it can be seen as Paradharma and is not only self-defeating, but also appreciated by none; best is for both teams A and B to step up to a shared higher identity and reach out to each other or, rely on a trusted intermediary functioning at a common and a higher identity. Celebrating 'Unity in Diversity' suggests that we retain our diverse uniforms, our unique identities, while we relate to each other. Migration between regions (cities, states, and nations), cultures, languages, religions, corporations, professions, etc. presents many challenges in the realm of Swadharma.

3. In these situations, one’s commitment to one’s Swadharma can be severely challenged; it is important to note that skillful commitment to Swadharma alone can fetch long term harmony and happiness. In the context of migration, one needs to be aware of the various identities and accepted practices at play and is required to be extremely skillful in ensuring that the friction is minimal and the collective satisfaction is maximal. Paradharma tempts one with short term worldly glory at the expense of hampered self-development and eroded inner wealth in the longer term. That said, the best manifestation of migration oriented Swadharma is an inner phenomenon, to 'migrate' from a grosser and lower identity mindset to a subtler and higher identity mindset:  from 'my religion first' to 'my nation first' mindset  from 'my nation first' to 'my gender first' mindset  from 'my gender first' to 'human first' mindset which needs well guided and intense self-effort and integration of wisdom to one's life; we are most certainly beyond all our limiting worldly identifications. Reference(s) 1. Conflict or Confluence of Interests and Ethics