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The following are five signs or characteristics of samyaktva, and from them, we may know by our own inner thoughts what our attitude is, towards the universe in which we find ourselves, and whether or not we are in the state of samyaktva. They are internal signs, so that each can test himself,
1. Upashama, is a mental state when the strong intoxicating karmas or the kashāyas like anger, greed, etc.; are suppressed or controlled. And the suppression has taken place either naturally, because the karma is exhausted, or else by thinking on the matter and realizing that after all, by being engrossed in the worst anger, greed, etc. we fall to such a depth that it takes a long time to come up again. If the suppression comes naturally, it is because the person has done the work before.
2. Samvega (noun), is a desire to reach the state of liberation.
3. Nirveda, is a recognition that this continual going on from incarnation to incarnation is not the right state of life ; you look upon this or any embodied state as a misery and one to get away from. There is always the pain of birth and death.
4. Anukampā, is compassion for those who suffering from any kind misery. If the misery is due to their own ignorance and foolishness, then there is still pity for them that they should be thus ignorant. (It is the duty of society to lesson the extent of suffering which exists among them).
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