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also modulate. It is correct that there takes no change in the eternal elements and fundamental vows. If truth is acceptable, it shall always remain admissible but the change in the form of its expression according to the era is but natural. Human society does not remain static but it always remains dynamic, then motion means not to stick to one place and non-stop at one place implies changes of circumstances to be essential.
Man is a contemplative discreet being. He makes progress as also degrees. But this is a fact he certainly moves. In this wheel of motion, the perspectives also change. Yesterday a substance or thing was viewed with some vision but perhaps due to change of time and condition the same vision may view with another angle, and these angles also variate in respect of space, time and virtue. Hence, a salubrious mode of vision will be to bear in mind the current of changes but never to forget in the cataclysm the eternity and the fundamental vows.
A synthesis of both is beneficial with this very angle of view.
Let us, therefore, necessarily possess an inquisitiveness to view the doctrine of Equanimity in the new perspective and in its basis determine our rule of conduct. In the foregoing chapter a discussion is undertaken with this inquisitiveness.
Scientific Development and Projection of Social Strength :
The development of scientific means has produced an inconceivable revolution in the so long continuing tradition of the human life. The ambit of an individual acquaint
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