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Vyavahara, is related to the word nishchaya. Vyavahara prefixed to any state means the visible signs that you see. And it is necessary as illustra-? tion. Vyavahara dharma, for instance, is the visible conduct of the man. It impresses upon the minds of people who see it the truth of the conduct. The description, which a man makes either for himself or to other people, of his Deva, of his Teacher, or of his rules of conduct, would be the vyavahara deva, vyavahara guru, vyavahara dharma. Such description of devaship is like the peg on which, on account of weakness, the thoughts must be hung. Vyavahara leads 'to nishchaya. But still it does not necessarily preceds in time the nishchaya,
Nishchaya, is the term related to vyavahara. It is the real internal state, that ought to accompany the vyavahara acts. For instance, the nishchye deva would be the internal condition or the realisation of the conviction that, there is in me the potentiality of becoming the Deva, I have described.
Applying these two terms, vyavahara and nish
chaya, dbarma is to be defined from Dharma.
ra these two points of view. Vyavahara
dharma is the action in accordance with the rules prescribed or taught by Arhats and accompanied always by days or based always upon
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