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Obstacles in the Right Turn of Self Good:
If there is a right twist to the instinct of self good, then it may sacrifice for the other's good even afterwards, but at least it will rapidly learn the balancing and by this balanced attitude the salubrity of the individual and social life will improve to a great extent. To this right change the biggest and most difficult obstacle is of incongruity. Incongruity which exists today and which daily moulding into the new complicated forms is eroding the social fabric at every step.
So long as this disharmony will continue to enhance, self interest will predominate and in such a mental condition, there will arise no sentiment of doing for other's good, because in this unjust struggle of self interest, man will wound and scar the other's good at every moment-the birth of equipoising trend of self-good with other's good illuminates the path of Equanimity (equality). Equanimity first sponsors equilibrium where as its advanced form unfolds in the sacrifice of self-interests.
In every life there may be the instinct of self-protection-this is not unnatural, but it should be a continued effort of human life and human society that the instinct after intermixing with other beings, may reach the higher stage of abnegation and sacrifice. To comprehend the obstacles intermeddling these efforts to strike blows on their causes and after conquering those obstacles to colour self-interest with the hue of equanimity-this would be the active and successful aspect of practical equanimity. Attempt is being made here to comprehend this very aspect.
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