Dharma means duties :

Each one of us has duties which come to us unasked,

depending on the status,

post and place that we are in.

For example, a student’s duty is to study.

To do one’s own duty is sva-dharma and to do another’s is para-dharma.

In settling a land dispute,

an evaluator is called in court.

His job is to evaluate the land and not pass judgment as to who it should belong to.

A clerk’s duty may be to write cheques.

He cannot sign them in the absence of his boss or forge his boss’s signature.

Swami Chinmayananda