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reach to its completion. The powerful link of this all-round devolopment can only be the Equanimity.
Omnifarious Equanimity :
This equanimity should be established not in one form but in omnifarious ways. As many phases of life are external or interral - in all those phases should Equanimity pervade. Incongruity is such a fire that if it be left unextinguished in one sphere, it would by expanding itself from that sphere flame the other spheres also. Therefore, it is essential that in all the spheres of life, in all the activities, processes and schemes, this equanimity oriented system should be vitally installed.
When it is seen from external viewpoint, it appears that equality has been established in the political field on the basis of equal right of vote, but if there be inequality in the economic field, what is its consequence-this can be perceptibe to-day in all the directions. Right to vote is equal for all, but one who is financially well off may purchase votes in any number and this makes the mockery of political equality. In the same way suppose the equanimous conditions have been evolved in the external life, but if the inner spirit abounds in anomalies, how long the external equality will sustain ? When lusts and longings aggressively swoop upon the internal spirit, then the flimsy cover of external temperateness will also disrupt.
For this reason, equanimity should be omnifarious, If equanimity (temperateness) breeds forth in inner life and the same when blooms forth in various forms in the extrin. sic life, then that equanimity will be stable and fructuous.
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