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It is only a matter of degree of civilisation and development whether a person feels gentle and careful and thoughtful to this, to us, rather great extent. Protection to life in all forms is the behaviour natural to a highly developed soul, as I understand it.)
Before proceeding with the next gunasthāna, the 4th, there must be something said of what is called samyaktya'; it cannot be translated by one English word.
As soon as the mithyātva (delusion) is cont
sbt rolled, or inoperative, then there comes Samyaktva.
out the contrary quality called samyaktva. The tva means ness.
The essential for the appearance of this state is that the worst degree of anger, of pride, of deceitfulness, and of greed are removed, or at least controlled and inoperative. Then a riglit attitude of thought, a right attitude towards truth, comes out. You are, for instance, convinced that to kill a living being is wrong. There is a relish of such convictions.
A man's whole progress depends upon his acquiring this samyaktva ; and it is present in each of the remaining 11 gunasthāna or stages of development. It is, therefore, present in the next gunasthāna to be described, namely the 4th. All philosophy so-called and concentration, are of no use or are all false unless this state is reached. How, then, is this samyaktva to be reached ?
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