Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

Author(s): Nanesh Acharya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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an ordinary achievement but it can rotate the wheel of healthy transformation. But, it is widely known in which direction this wheel was rotated and how it is rotating.
Leave aside the failure of Government policy having obtained riddance from this bog of Imbalance, but when it is deeply sinking into the morass, it has become more difficult to make forceful efforts to bring equality in the field of economics. Inspite of all the claims of economic progress in India the inequality in this field has augmented boundlessly after attaining the political freedom. On one side is a sizable number of urban people swinging coquettishly in the swing of opulence and luxury in majestic buildings, on the other side there is a vast multitude of crores of destitute and helpless human-skeltons deprived even of the essential commodities of life-ordinary diet, clothes and shelter- burdened with hardships and miseries. How painful is this disparity?
Where to have a sight of the Equanimity filled with mildness and simplicity in this society of today blundering in the most adverse circumstances of financial imbalances. It seems difficult to create awakening and infuse spirit of service in the affluent group, for, why should that group dissociate itself from the enjoyful use of its riches which it has acquired by whatsoever means. (The conscience of this type of person is dorment and dark). Financial inequality creates the web of luxury and sensuous pleasures. Wealth amassd by immoral means, makes a man highheaded and boasting and keeps him away from those who are weak and poor. In turn, the poverty attracted by affluence also allows itself to follow these immoral means for
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