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various groups of activities, selection of the office holders and maintenance of duties etc. Full control be exercised from the Head Office to open and run the branches and sub-branches and after calling suggestions from lower levels, the procedure may be laid down for chalking out the various programmes and schemes of the society. The members, cffice bearers, cch miitees and branches should be so harmonised that the working of the society may be well organised in all respects.
For the organised working and guiding the programmes to a meaningful purpose an advisory board can also be constituted in which the eminent accomplishers alleging faith in the equanimous system should be included. In this board the co-operation of saints and ascetics can also be availed of. This board should only function in matters of policy (ethical) decisions and imparting directions.
Householder as The Initial Director of This Society :
The main work of the formation and management of the Equanimous society should be in the hands of the householders because the main field of propagating equanimity shall basically be the worldly sphere. The society shall have to launch the first attack against the incongruities of the temporal life, there, if the society gains success and can make individuals' moral life prone to upgradation, then the fields of action can also extend to the spiritual region and in that case there can also be an alteration in the working system. But at present the full responsibility of running the society should be in the hands of householders, the more so the number of members increases, the office bearers be selected or elected according to their choice. Existence of
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