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and go without indentifying his own self with them. He gets to know that these bodily pains and pleasures are enemies to and obscure the bliss quality of the real self.
Para daya. Para means others. This is a love for others; but the difference between this and the dravya daya is that, the para daya is the result of thought, whereas you were simply born into the dravya daya and followed it blindly. Here the thought is: "I do not like pain or misery, therefore other people or other living beings, animals, birds, etc, would not; and therefore I shall endeavour to avoid inflicting any pain or misery upon them".
Svarupa daya. Is a refraining from injuring other living beings because you wish to obtain a pleasureable condition, such as that of the devas (not Deity, but the beings in the pleasurable devā state). You believe that by not killing or hurting, you will reach a pleasureable condition, and for that reason, you do not kill or hurt. This is good, but not the highest dayā.
Anubandhi daya. Literally means daya in the result and not in the beginning. It is, for instance, telling anyone something unpleasant, in order that, they may come to their senses, but there is no vindictiveness or anger in this anubandhi dayā; if. the correction arises from anger, it is not daya The real desire here, is to benefit the other person.
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