Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

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

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after having sacrificed their genius, skill and ordinary progress.
This lust of riches after transforming into the greed of power is becoming more aggressive. The power hungry persons by closing their eyes, are bombing in such a way that there is no discrimination between guilty or innocent. In a way the hankerer of authority becomes a devil. His sole attention is to uphold his power-position. He has to do nothing if immense loss is caused to others. For him it all becomes redundant. In this perspective a lust of fame becomes more frightful. These lusts, after getting expanded into larger forms, account for the disharmonies of the world.
Variedness-Mother of Vices :
If we trace the root cause of all the direly baneful and fatal defects prevailing in the human society, we shall find all of them as the roots of tree of heterogeniousness. This incongruity emerges forth and thrives by the wrong efforts of some of the individuals but due to its bad effects mass retrogression begins and it moves at such a fast rate that the guilty and innocent are evenly grinded under its wheels.
This sort of grinding is on both the sides. An individual is clutched in the inner world as also in the outer world, and at this stage the difference between materialism and spiritualism becomes more sharp, whereas in the ordinary course a right equilibrium between the two can assure a healthy progress. A man engulfed in the outer world, after having experienced the bitterness of inequality, becomes himself more piquant and crooked. In this race of
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