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INTRODUCTION
ARE WE ALL "SAMA" ?
When a question is posed that 'Are we all 'Sama' or equal ?', every-one wants to hear its answer in affirmative or desires to be so. It can be said as the real desire of every living being. We are to think in this context that what is the concept of jainism and particularly,how Acharya Shri Nanesh has redefined the meaning of Samata in its Philosophical and practical sense as well-? It is all in this book preached by Acharya Shri Nanesh, compiled by me in Hindi and now translated in English by Late Shri Saruparia entitled "Equanimity : Philosophy & Practice" of which introduction I am priviledged here to write :
Man has so far travelled a long way to attain the Nirvana as the freedom from the Bondage of Karmas thus achieving the real 'Samata' of souls in their original form.
During the continuous struggle for equality, the mankind has developed democracy as a full form of equal social life. On that basis, it is a form of Government and also a form of political, economic and social equality. But in all this development, if the 'Samata' is not developed in the mind and heart of the man, nothing real can be achieved. And that is in real the philosophy of Equanimity (Samata), preached vigorously by Acharya Shri Nanesh in the troubled times of the present world by prescribing its practical aspects in different stages and with different vows which
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