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OUANIMITY
Every person in his lifetime almost constantly experiences and suffers from pairs of duals like happiness and sorrow, respect and disrespect, interest and lack of interest, cold and heat and so on. Unruffled by all these, when one tries to live in a spirit of peace with a balanced mind, one is said to practice equanimity.
In the present context, it is proposed to think over and analyze the subject, also from a philosophical point of view. Real equanimity can be attained to at a very high level of spiritual development. Its genuine attainment is possible only when an aspirant has
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