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economic or any other field, and gain victory on all the obstructions against equanimity.
6. To exercise discretion between conscious and non
conscious things, withdraw attachment from in-animate, to lend assistance in removing every where the priority of inanimate and assuming the conscious as homogeneous to engage life in its developed Equanimity.
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In life and outside environment, restraining attachment and aversion, exhibit unswerving mentality of equalness with all the living beings, opt it and making it steadfast in meditation, adopt it as the essence of equanimous life.
These Three Stages to Approach Asceticism :
If an accomplisher of Equanimity continues to make proper development in these three categories and in the last Adept category percolates his heartiness and energisation, then, for him it can be observed that from the virtual point of view, that accomplisher has approached the precincts of asceticism. The third category will be reckoned as the highest evolution of a house-holder's life. Rules of all these three categories have been enunciated. In accordance with them for the purpose of going ahead from one stage to another, every accomplisher of equanimity should continue to keep with the background of discretion, his conduct and thinking equipoised and self-restrained, so that even mindedness may take a stabilized form in a man's mind and society. This is the inspiring provision for self benediction and universal development.
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