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which causes produce which karmas, and the thir guna sthāna has been described. This ordinary common dharma comes in here now as a sort digression, but it serves the purpose of showing how the man who wishes gets or helps himself to get the samyaktva, the samyaktva being in all the gunasthāna or stages of development after the third gunasthāna. So that these rules are as it were a link between the 3rd and 4th guna sthāna.
Common Dharma.
The ordinary or common dharma is the first step which a person desiring to make some spiritual progress should adopt. It is the way to commence working out the karmas, particularly the anger, pride, deceitfulness, and greed. The following 35 rules are the ordinary or common dharma.
I. The person who wishes to make some spiritual progress should follow some kind of business, trade, or profession, which is not of an ignoble or degrading nature; he should follow it in a just and fair way, and in proportion to his capital.
This wolud include service in the employment of other people, and then in proportion to the capital would mean not undertaking to do more work than you have energy and strength to perform.
All these rules are, as before said, based on daya, i. e., doing good to and not causing injury to
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