Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

SR No.: 001659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nanesh Acharya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 244
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 12 MB

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First of all if we ponder over the similarity in spiritual field, then with the view point of its basic nature, all souls are alike. Whether it be the soul of an undeveloped one sense being or the fully developed (revered soul of liberated supreme being. The present difference between these two, both are born of karmas. Due to the filth of impious thoughts and wrong activities having adhered to the soul in its undeveloped state, its form also becomes dirty. Just as an image can not be reflected on a dirty mirror, so also a dirty soul remains grandeurless. Then the spiritual alikeness means removal of this filth and its restoration to its purest genuine nature.
If each individual soul thus turns towards alikeness, then on the other side same type of atmosphere of equality be created in family. society, country and world. By its effect the collective similarity may gather momentum and convert the whole life prone to alikeness. When steps will be taken to introduce equality in Governmental, economical and social policies and more and more it is actualised, then this effluence of alikeness will run two fold from internal to external and external to internal. Then materialism and spiritualism will not remain contradictory to each other but shall become supplementary, this combination will make equanimous the external and internal life.
Either communism or socialism or any other ideology may be vechicle of this change but the goal should be visible and clear to us. It is by cultivation of human qualities the promulgation of equality in world order-that equality which would be not only a balance in internal life of a man but also a motivator for maintaining that balance.
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