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A campaign was launched: Grow more grains. Use chemical fertilizers and improve yield. This order came into being. With chemical fertilizers, the yield no doubt, increased, but the nutrition in the grain decreased. Grain became harmful to such an extent that those who consumed it, even died at times. On the one hand we make attempts to control population. On the other we have medicines trying to improve the longevity of man. And at another level we have the use of chemical fertilizers that takes the lives of people without intending to. This is a cheap option to reduce the population. Poisonous medicine, poisonous grain and family planning...I can see no difference between the three. All three seem to say the same thing. Politicians are very clever. They do not opt for direct killing instead they advocate the use of material that is sweet to taste but meets their ends too. If circumstances can never cease to be, our anger too can never be completely pacified. It is possible to pacify anger only with the opening of the third eye.
Third eye means equanimity
Our third eye is the eye of equanimity. We have
Anekanta: The Third Eye
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