Samata — equanimity — is the state samayika is named for and the criterion by which Jain practice judges itself. The formula recited defines it as friendship toward all beings, delight in the virtuous, compassion for the suffering, and equanimity toward the hostile — so it is explicitly not indifference or withdrawal from other people. What it describes is the cessation of raga and dvesha, attraction and aversion, the two movements that generate the vibration by which karma adheres. The practical test the tradition applies is severe: a fast performed with irritation, a vow kept with pride, an austerity undertaken for admiration binds karma rather than shedding it, and the texts say so repeatedly. This is why Jainism, for all the visibility of its external austerities, insists that the austerity is worthless without the interior state, and why bhava, the internal disposition, is a technical category running through the whole system alongside dravya, the external act.