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evolution will also get blocked.
On the other side if full priority be given to the social reform and advancement only, then the individual's liberties will get trampled and in that atmosphere machineries will be invented but there will be a dearth of freethinking individuals. The result in the long run will be the birth of a commanding influence (dictatorship) in running the society. Hence it should be the adroitness of an Equanimous society to maintain a salubrious equilibrium between an individual's development and the reformative social activities. Neither the individual's liberty get scorched nor a few individuals become so powerful as to commit stupidity in trampling the rights of a majority of the people... Both the points should be so equipoised that an individual may engage in the protection of social good, as also the society should be vigilant in offering equal cooperation to each individual.
This equilibrium will depend upon the cautious vision and salubrious conviction on behalf of all the members of the society for which the mentality is to be cultured in the categories of Equanimous discipline.
Equanimous Society Should not be a Segregated Entity :
Generally it happens that a few thinkers and workers convening together from an organization for the public good, but after a lapse of time such a situation arises in the expansion of its work that the same organization also becomes a separate and sequestered organization amongst so many organizations of the Human Society. In that case the public utility of that organisation comes to an end. As a
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