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ever necessity arises he should on suitable opportunity sacrifice his own benefaction to safeguard the collective good. This will be the essence under lying atl these duties.
Twentyfirst Maxim - Society Based on Equanimity :
Belief in the creation and management of a new society founded on the conceptual and practical aspects of Equanimity.
Wherever there is a question of goal or objective there is required full alertness. Goal is this : the basis of the newly contemplated society should completely have its roots in Equanimity. An accomplisher should have complete conviction in this venture and make full exertion that he should deem his first duty to remove incongruities and should lend the support of salubrious Equanimity to every individual organization or collective group.
In this way these twenty one maxims collectively instruct an accomplisher of Equanimity that he should dedicate his life for his individual as well as social Equanimity.
Three Stages for the Adoration of Conduct :
Preliminary to asceticism, for the discipline of an accomplisher of Equanimity, three stages or ladders are prescribed for the reason that the accomplisher may himself have confidence and the society may identify on which stage he is plodding in the accomplishment of Equanimity ? Such confidence and identification shall sustain a vigorous ardour in the accomplisher's mind for amelioration. The aforesaid three stages are as under :1. (Samtavadi) An advocate of Equanimity.
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