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If there is any feeling of revenge or hate then it is not dayā.
That makes six ways in which dayā shows itself.
The person in the state of samyaktva is convinced that only a body of rules which is based on dayā is true dharma or true conduct rules, true religion, or the right law of life, and that no other body of rules, such as one that is based on killing animals for sacrifices, can be a right one. And it is a strong conviction, about which there is no wavering.
Alter reaching this state of conviction with regard to the Deity, the Master, and Dharma, a person may feel doubtsul or unsteady on the subject; not so 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 a tichāras, and the following five are given :
1. Shankā, means doubt. This would be the first transgression of samyaktva. You may doubt the truth of some of the statements of the philosophy ; but this doubt is that which comes after having once been convinced of the truth of the statement. The doubt called samshaya mithyatva (under causes) is a doubt experienced before ever having experienced the conviction of the truth of a statement.
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