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other people or other living beings, animals, birds, etc, would not; and therefore I shall endeavour to avoid inflicting any pain or misery upon them."
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Svarupa daya. Is a refraining from injuring other living beings because you wish to obtain pleasureable condition, such as that of the devas (not Deity, but the beings in the plesurable deva state). You believe that by not killing or hurting, you will reach a pleasureable condition, and for that reason, you do not kill or hurt. This is good, but not the highest daya.
Anubandhi daya. Literally means daya in the result and not in the beginning. It is, for instance, telling anyone something unpleasant, in order that, they may come to their senses, but there is no vindictiveness or anger in this anubandhi daya; if the correction arises from anger, it is not daya. The real desire here, is to benefit the other person. If there is any feeling of revenge or hate then it is
not daya.
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