Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

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

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Wileless mind is entangled, tightened in the wires of knavery. Internally he thinks something else but in manifestation it is made in other form. This dual behaviour is turning a man from truth. Where deception has taken hold, how can sincerity reside therein ? If uprightness is absent, what to talk of goodness and beauty of Soul either of one's own or of others. In the absence of a beginning, how can progres be imagined ?
Certainly a man having initially and fundamentally depraved his mind, is running towards degrees somersault. When such a selfish mind is striking an axe on the very roots of humanity, the origination of salutory ideas becomes difficult to accomplish. Notions originating in the periphery of selfishness lack liberality and abnegation without which how can the mind elevate itself to the loftiness of its real nature ?
Where the very beginning takes place on the ground defected by the ill effects of unevenness, there to expect wholesome and beneficial improvement in future will mere amount to building a castle in air. When ideas devoid of relinquishment find expression through the medium of speech, how can that speech also stimulate any relinquishment. The deeds engendered by the said speech woven in the knots of tortuousness can only cause a man to sink deep into the morass of self-interest and luxuries.
Today this heterogeneousness is penetrating into the deep layers of the human mind, bursting into the chicanery of speech and rendering havoc in the camouflagged actions The deepening echoing question is : what shall happen of the three-fold activities of a man's mind, speech and acts,