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CHAPTER-X
21 MAXIMS OF EQUANIMOUS CONDUCT AND THREE STAGES
When an accomplisher of Equanimity, standing on the ground level of practice, casts an eye on the spotless forms of conduct, it will be not un-natural for him to get once perplexed, he is at a loss to know which maxims he should grasp and with which paces he is to move ahead on the path of Equanimity? One may know the extensive globe of the Earth, may perceive it, but if he intends to start from a point and reach a determined destination, it becomes necessary for him to choose a determined path or to construct his own track.
It is certainly a Herculean task to grope out the right way and walk over it, or by one's own deep knowledge and hard exertion construct a new track. To gather the scattered maxims of conduct and to move within their bounds-these are the specialities of the character.
While ascertaining the maxims of conduct, one shall have to keep in view at every step the present circumstances that the conduct should be so powerful that it can motivate the individual and social life of a man in the desired direction.
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