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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
is called dravya daya-the right action without knowing why, that is to say, when the internal attitude of mind is not active.
A second way in which daya wonld manifest itself, would be that we should feel a desire that other living beings should develop their spritual gature; the previous way mentioned simply protected the bodily welfare. Here the desire is to do good to the soul of the other living being. This form is called bhava daya.
Sva daya. A third way in which daya shows itself. Sva means 'one's own'. It is a feeling of pity for the soul that it should have been so long, that is for all past tiine, in the deluded state of mithyatva-this pity cones after the Sz'nyaktva has been experienced; and in consequence of this feeling of pity, he takes care to remain aloof, írom the pains and pleasures of life letting them come and go without indentifying his own self with them. He gets to kaow that these bodily prins and pleasures are enemies to and obscure the bliss quality of the real self.
Para daya.. Para means others. This is a love for others; but the difference between this and the dravya daya is that, the para daya is the result of thought, whereas you were simply born into the dravya daya and followed it blindly. Here the thought is: “I do not like pain or misery, therefore
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