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of categories in the boundaries of political, economic and social equality will not be on the basis of wealth but this division of social categories will be founded on merits and performances. That division also will not be derogatory to humanism, but will give an opportunity for health competition in advancing towards the goal of equanimity. So long as consciousness being subjugated by immense greed remains under the control of wealth, till then it shall be just like a dead thing, but no sooner does it learn to keep wealth under its control then its vitality will also attain grandeur.
Therefore, a practicant proceeding on the path of equanimity should principally believe in the divison of categories based on attributes and performances. In what form should this basis of attributes and performances take palce? This should be understood. Because today in the money. oriented atmosphere, this is difficult to be grasped. In the society that person should be allotted high status, high respect or high reputation who has cultured in his life human attributes and whose performances always inclined towards relinquishment and public good, and by this measure rod the society should be divided in various categories. This division will mean that the man at the lower run gathering awakening may countinue to make right efforts to achieve the higher rungs. Merits and performances alone be the symbols of the greatness of a man and the other material attainments be viewed with a lower value in their comparison.
As much faith in the division of categories on the basis of merits and performances translates into a man's action that much prominance of the materialist beings in the society will diminish and accordingly the veneration of
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