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daya, which is a fellow feeling for other living beings; and vyavahâra dharma in order to be vyavahâra dharma must become the cause of nishchaya dharma. The love, compassion, sympathy, pity, etc. must accompany the practice of the rules, otherwise the practice is mere hypocrisy.
Nishchaya dharma would be the purity of the soul which results from the above mentioned pure action, and the sign of this purity of the soul is that the dirt of karma disappears (karma is a foreign element in combination with the soul). And the fruit of this purity of soul is samyaktva and other higher stages up to liberation. This purity of soul comes out from the action, from the vyavahâra dharma.
Nishchaya dharma.
Dharma is not a something separate from the man. The rule is the man's idea, and the idea is part of or an aspect of the man. Dharma is nothing apart from the man; it is the state or action (state of knowledge, mode of behaviour) of the man.
Classification of Dharma.
Dharma can first be divided into (1) the layman's, and (2) the monk's.
Leaving the dharma of the monk, the dharma of the layman can be divided into (a) Ordinary or common dharma, and (b) special dharma,
We are in the course of dealing with the guna sthānas or stages of development, in reference to
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