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will turn as an instrument of corruption and oppression. *The complicated noose of economic sovereignty visible in the world at present, commences from business adulteration, deception and falsifications. Hence, it is necessary that the business of the equanimity follower should be guileless and sincere
Fourteenth Maxim : Equal Distribution of Wealth and Cereals :
Not to keep self-ownership on the wealth or cereals in excess of the necessary quantity required for fulfilling the responsibility of individual, society or country. If we ourself possess wealth or cereals in excess of our requirements, that excess should be treated as trust and be rightly distributed as and when necessary. The poison of heterogeneousness which spreads from mind to man's deeds, emanates from possession and even above from the lust of possessiveness. Hence, an accomplisher of Equanimity shall have to keep away from the meum in possessiveness. On one side he should not accumulate wealth and hoard cereals in excess of his requirements, and on the other side, he should undertake a vow of keeping the limits of wealth, enjoyable things etc to a minimum. The sooner and efficient system of equal distribution of wealth and food stuffs can be introduced in a society, to the same extent magnificence of the sentimental and practical propagation of equanimity shall be possible.
Fifteenrh Maxim: From Morality to Spirituality
Observance of analogus benign activities for building an elegant spiritual life, on the background of morality
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