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dingly. Then that accomplisher rises above the individuality and takes the form of a society or institution, then his goal becomes to accommodate the transformed self into the comprehensive transformation. Such an accomplisher approaches near ascetism, where he fuses his self good into the others good and frets to bring homogeneity everywhere in the society. Instead of being a vehicle of equanimity he becomes its driver.
An adept of Equanimity should assimilate the following higher rules in his life : 1. To deem all the living beings alike his soul and act as
also to consider the development of all the spiritual potentialities as his own development. Abandoning the self-evil-tendencies born of incongruity and set an ideal as also to lend support for the development of equanimous trends in all.
2. To make the self confidence so powerful that no trea
chery (breach of trust) may be possible knowingly or un-knowingly with self or with other beings.
3.
In the daily routine of twenty four hours of life to exercise the Equanimous feeling, practice with discretion, and to review all these.
4. To maintain cordiality, sympathy and co-operation
towards every being, consider others pain and pleasure as his own-all souls are alike me.
5.
To keep in view the objective of social justice, to wage struggle on one's own spiritual strength against the forces of injustice whether they may be in the political,
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