upakara | उपकार

upakara (Devanagari: उपकार ISO15919: upakāra) means benevolence.

Since living beings have a divine soul and a material body the benevolence is of two kinds:

• towards the soul or
• towards the betterment of the body.

Also written as upkaar

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REFERENCE

Bhakti Shatak - Hundred Gems of Devotion - an in-depth analysis