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STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
is convinced that he cannot be the right kind of teacher able to teach us the truth;--if he uses all sorts of false politeness he is not a man able to teach the truth.
Dharma means the body of rules of conduct.
It does two things, it prevents a living Dharma.
being from falling down spiritually, and it helps him to go up spiritually. These rules apply to all living beings, not only to man. All living beings are social, and these rules have some thing to do with a living being's relationships with other living beings. Our own development only takes place by reason of our actions and life in relation to other living beings. The ultimate object of all these rules so far as they are social, must come to this: that we must do some good to our fellow beings. The object is that we may be able to do some good to the people around us. The basis of these rules is pity, compassion, love, doing good, benevolence, kindness, etc. [called daya.]
'Daya' can be manifested in many ways, and we want to know them, daya being the foundation of the rules.
One of the ways in which daya would be shown. would be that he would follow the good ways of his fa'nily, for instance, in not killing Aies, etc. This
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