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If the wheel of revolution be rotated in a planned order, then undoubtedly it will end inconsistencies and protect equanimity. This wheel can be called the wheel of public welfare. The glimpse of the Equanimous society should only be thatt it should, by its powerful motion, rotate the wheel of revolution with full speed so that new social ideas and traditions may take birth and for their prevailence and causing maintenanze, new pedigrees be formed. Values May Change and New Values May Evolve :
: The working of the various organizations is conducted on certain principles, and when these principles are translated into actions, certain traditions evolve which take the shape of social values. These values become the guidelines for the society. In their formation the directive instructions of the eminent dignitaries are also incorporated. So long as these values do not get insignificant the lives of individuals conducted on their basis, make progress towards a determined goal and that direction is of social evolution.
But due to passage of time when such values once evolved become significant, begin to seize rigidity and the prompting spirit looses its stamina, then arises a great necessity for change of these values altogether.
Sometimes such confusion takes place that an agitation starts to abolish those values, but in their stead no new values are offered, then a situation arises akin to an anarchy (lawlessness). In order to escape from this crisis, the only solution can be to change the old values and in their stead new values be established. In this matter it
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