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CHAPTER - IX
EQUANIMITY & THE KNOCKS OF PRACTICE
What we have known and after knowing what has been acknowledged as beneficial, but if that has been not translated into action, how can that knowing be significant or meaningful. The usefulness of knowledge lie in action. Howsoever magnificent may be any philosophy; but if it does not awaken the vital impulse of practical action, then the excellence of that philosophy will not prove useful till that time. For this reason the pan of practical action will always be reckoned as heavier.
With this very view Acharya (Preceptor) Umaswati in his Tattavarth Sutra has observed that 'Salvation' will be possible by knowledge coupled with action.32 Knowledge devoid of action and action bereft of knowledge-both are useless for the right upliftment of life. When knowledge manifests its splendourous nature in the form of dynamic action, then only the strong background of unfettered thinking can be formulated. The philosophic background of equanimity will only then prove fruitful, when that equanimity on the knock of practical behaviour does not turn ugly and continues to demonstrate its utility. Violent Knocks of Practice :
It is easy to acquire knowledge of a thing but it is difficult to have its right knowledge and still more difficuit
32 “Gyan Kriyabhyam Mokshab".
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