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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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animals for Sacrifices, can be a right one. And it is a strong conviction, about which there is no wavering.
After reaching this state of conviction with regard to the deity, the Master, and Dharma, a person may feel doubtful or unsteady on the subject; not sa as to destroy the virtue of samyaktva, but to soil it, so to speak. It may be compared to injuring the body and not killing it. The things which soil the samyaktva are called aticharas, and the following five are given:
1. Shanka, means doubt. This would be the first transgression of samyaktva. You may doubt the truth of some of the statements of the pbilosom phy; but this doubt is that which comes after having once been convinced of the truth of the statement. The doubf called samshaya mithyatva (under causes) is a doubt experienced before ever having experienced the conviction of the truth of è statement.
When a statement is heard or read this refers of course more particularly to philosophical and religious matters) instead of saying "It may or may not be true" the fact should be recognised that the inability to understand the statement, is due to weakness, which will in time disappear.
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