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EQUANIMITY
This shows that even the lowest of the low get uplifted by the life of these souls endowed with equanimity; sinners get purified.
This is a living example of this reality. (3) Mahatma Gandhi looked upon Shrimad Rajchandra as his spiritual preceptor. Shrimad Rajchandra had a diamond business in Bombay, but often he used to visit small towns for Yogic practices.
In 1954, he came to Kavitha, a small town in the state of Gujarat for his spiritual progress (Sadhana) in seclusion. He preached twice during the daytime but resorted to silence in the evening.
As the night fell, he used to sit in meditation all alone in the adjoining fields or on the river bank. He put on just one cloth over his body even in the severest cold. In this state of meditation mosquitoes used to bite him; but he withstood this with equanimity. Mostly, he would not even be conscious of the mosquitobites, but the fact betrayed itself when red swellings appeared on his body.
In this manner, Shrimad Rajchandra revealed great soul force by resorting to equanimity even under adverse circumstances, and in the end took to the highest Samadhi.
Such is the superhuman power of equanimity.
SAMATA-NI SADHANA
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