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An accomplisher should first while living a house holder's life nourish the ethical ground level and with that nourishment enter the spiritual field, so that he can effectively create a new atmosphere there. If Morality has not percolated in his earning system, daily routine or practical modes, then, how will any evolution be possible of the Spirituality there?
Sixteenth Maxim : Non Violent Experiment for Reform
To reform the violaters of the salutary rules of asceticism or any kind of discipline by non-violent un-co-operation but never to harbour a malicious feeling.
An accomplisher of Equanimity, should convert nonviolence in such a forceful weapon and put it into use without malice or retaliative spirit, so that activities of reform be carried out everywhere. Gandhiji, used to assert that he is averse to the British Empire in India but not adverse to English people and this he named as the spirit of non-violence. That spirit was right. Aversion be against the sin but not a bit against the sinful man. This is the lesson of non-violence. Why contempt to an individual. Why malice against him ? By the instrument of Non-violent and non-co-operation what to say of an individual even congregation can be reformed.
Seventeenth Maxim - Classification on Merits and Acts :
Confiding in the classification of humanity accordtng to one's merits and performances, not to bear any ill will or aversion againat individual.
If on the basis of being born in particular caste or home, one is called of high class and the other Shudra
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