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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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daya, which is a fellow feeling for other living beings; and vyavahara dharma in order to be vyavahara dharma must become the cause of nishchaya dharna. The love, compassion, sympathy, pity, etc. must accompany the practice of the rules, otherwise the practice is mere hypocrisy.
Nishchaya dharma would be the purity of the
soul which results from the above menNishchaya dharma.
* tioned pure action, and the sign of this
purity of the soul is that the dirt of karma disappears (karma is a foreigo element in combination with the soul). And the fruit of this purity of soul is samyaktva and other higher stages op to liberation. This purity of soul comes out from the action, from the vyavabara dharma.
Dharma is not a something separate from the man. The rule is the man's idea, and the idea is part of or au aspect of the man. Dharma is nothing apart from the man; it is the state or action (State of knowledge, mode of behaviour) of the man.
Classification of Dharma.
Dharma con first be divided into (1) the lay man's, and (2) the monk's.
Leaving the dharma of the monk, the dharma of the layman can be divided into (a) Ordinary Of common dharwa, and (b) special dharma.
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