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undings that natural respect may be awakened in the minds of the people towards the society.
A lamp is a bi-functional because it lights itself and other lamps also. This very function has to be performed by the Accomplishers of Equanimity. They must spread the light of their knowledge and conduct but also should by their modesty and mildness awaken those slumbering souls which due to helplessness are groaning under the influence of disparities and which are in need of the heartfelt sympathy of a liberator. In the field of equanimity, it will be the greatest service that the work of elevating and awakening the exploited, tortured and depressed groups be first taken in hand.
This Human campaign can be compared to the kindling of a series of lamps by touching a burning wick with the extinguished wick. If the self-dignity of the downtrodden and backward groups be once awakened and the prospect of alikeness be infused into them, then they can also come forward in the form of best Accomplisher of Equanimity. In this way if the rows of lamps have been kindled in all directions, how will then the illumination of the rows of equanimity-lamps not sparkle ? It will.
Of Which Type is This Concerted Effort :
It should be clear that in the form of equanimous soceity how this unified effort is being made and why ?
Many of you might have seen the inner parts of a watch. One indented wheel is so attached to another wheel that they not only intimately rotate but by self rotating. motivate the others also to do so. Their rotation and motiv
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