Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

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

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lived in the world. Among all the beings the human life has been reckoned to be excellent for the reason that realisation of the highest form of evolution, is primarily possible during this life alone. For this reason an analysis of this life's importance, relation between one and other life, and collectively the various relations between the world and living beings, should be conducted with this objective that this human life may not only be connected with each other, but also be instrumental in mutual development.
Various Aspects of The Worldly Life :
This is known to all, that a new born either of man or animal, is dependent and helpless. To say truely the first step of life in this world commences with affection and assistance. If this auspicious beginning uninterruptedly continues later on upto the last stage, then there is no doubt that the whole life of all beings at the level of family, society, country and universe moulded into the purity of equanimity coupled with the feelings of affection and assistance, can be made progressive and this purity can also illuminate the genuine nature of the soul.
But the trouble is that at present the relation between an individual and the society is in such a form that the aforesaid first stage is gradually worsening add the rigidity of selfishness and non-assistance is expanding. As much rigidity that much non-alikeness or discordance, and it becomes the primary duty of a conscious life to launch struggle against this fast spreading heterogeneousness. Today it is the urgent necessity to view the different aspec:s of a worldly life in this context to innovate, to improve and create everywhere equanimous conditions
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