According to Osho, swadharma is your ultimate inner nature—the silent, empty center identical in everyone—while on the circumference each person’s expression (svakarma) is unique and should be honored. In common usage people call this outer role ‘swadharma,’ but truly paradharma means borrowing another’s role or path. Freedom and right action arise by resting in your center and acting from your own karma, not imitation.
Swadharma is your own deepest truth and way; paradharma is copying someone else’s way.