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Explanation : Sama means equanimity. A jiva with intense emotions of anger, vanity, deceit, and greed would be trapped in an infinite cycle of birth and death. If a person understands the futility of the body and immortality of the soul, knows that the happiness and grief are only due to the precipitation of the past karmas, and that the layers of karmas can be removed with one's own efforts, he would remain equanimous. His goal would be to achieve supreme equanimity and free himself from all the kashayas.
Samvega (spiritual craving): It is the desire for Moksha arising from the realisation that the pleasures of gods and men are ultimately unsatisfying and the true bliss is the supreme bliss of Moksha.
Nirveda (disgust) : This is the loathing induced in a man of right faith by contact with the world and its miseries. He would be disgusted with mundane existence and would desire to be released from it.
Anukampa (compassion): It is the desire to eliminate the sufferings of others. It has two aspects. In its material aspect a compassionate person would try to assist those in misery and alleviate the sufferings. In its non-material or theoretical aspect the person would try to explain the right dharma and accord him the everlasting true peace of mind.
Astikya (relentless faith) is to have relentless and complete faith in the dharma revealed by the omniscient desireless lord. All the persons who attain
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