Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

Author(s): Nanesh Acharya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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concerned about man and his problems. It is in this context that his book is to be viewed.
Acharya Shri 'Nanesh' though a religious head of the Sadhumargi Jain Sect, is an original thinker who has the capacity to rise above from his religious belongingness and universalise ideas keeping man at the centre of his thinking with no boundaries of caste, colour, creed and nation. He ponders deep to take note of present distributed scene of morality, dehumanising systems of political and social institutions and a state of faithlessness in all the affairs of life. It all is because man has taken disharmony or inequanimity as the reality and formulates his beliefs on this so called reality. This fundamental ignorance has put him in the jungle of troubles. The need is to know first what is equanimity, how can it be achieved and lastly how to practice it in life? The book tries to illustrate and explain these questions step by step and we are able to grasp the whole scheme of equanimity in concept, method and practice, It is not merely a theory or a philosophical discourse, but a complete programme of transformation of an individual to the whole society and from family to the whole world not only religiously; but socially, politically and economically. It is a call for total change in sociopolitical view points for the welfare of mankind. It is a movement of refined order for the upliftment of not only those who are down trodden and poor, but also for well-off and power-ridden persons who badly need this soothing spiritul medicine Thus the book is equally significant for both the sections of the society.
Rationality is not only the monopolised enterprise of intellectuals. It may usher in any mind which may embrace