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STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
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We are in the course of dealing with the guna sthanas or stages of development, in reference to which causes produce which karmas, and the third guna sthana has been described. ordinary or common dharma comes in here now 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 gunasthana or stages of development after the third gunasthana. So that these rules are as it were a link between the 3rd and 4th gunasthana.
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.
1. The person who wishes to make some spiritual progress should follow some kind of business, trade or peofession, 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 would 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.
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