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equanimity life. Then commences the next step of creation; The Arihant having assimilated the highest ideals in life, spreads the light of knowledge in the whole universe, he alone becomes Siddha. One who is accomplished one is Siddha and Siddha symbolizes the success of creation. Destruction and creation, struggle and reformation both are the constructive aspects of life. Having assimilated these very aspects, an Equanimous society shall have to proceed in the new direction of constructiveness. Equanimity in The Quadrifaced Development of Life:
As much successful restraint or attack is directed on self interest-the root of unevenness whether in an individual's life or in social life-in that much proportion shall be possible the extinction of heterogeneousness. If the external possession decreases, the internal meum will also decline. Meum will diminish. Equanimity will enhance. If there be equanimity, unattached feeling will extend-then in the external social life possession will of course be necessary, its utility will also be availed of, but there will be no greed towards it-there will be no selfishness and no crooked tendency of accumulation, how then shall the inconsistency of any kind be able to deform the genuine equanimity?
When the obstacles in the quadrifaced evolution of life are destroyed, then a man warfed and wafted(saturated) by the equanimous sentiment of all public goods, will by his own evolution also reflect the evolution of the whole society. Then, by the evolution of an individual the evolution of the society will be cherished, and by the evolution of the society, the developed of the individual will easily
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