Book Title: Equanimity Philosophy and Practice Author(s): Nanesh Acharya Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit SamsthanPage 46
________________ Fundamental Question-What is Life? What is life? The query has been raised and the answer can be put forward that life is what is right, decisive and equanimous. It is a super ficial explanation that life is what is lived. If a man is closed in a sack and rolled down from the top of a hill, which will reach down to the ground by rolling. This would be a kind of method for coming down to the ground. If another man decends the hill by his measured strides and cautious eye, he will also reach the ground. Both of these persons would be said to have reached the ground. But what was the difference in reaching the ground by the first one and the other one. One is moved, while the other one moves. To be moved by some other one symbolise materialism and to be moved by self is consciousness. Now look to the consequences of both. One who moves rolling after being packed in the sack will be stained with blood, loose his consciousness by the knocks and counter-knocks of rocks and presumably would be disabled to walk for a long time. Hence, that which is only lived can be called a life of unawakening (rigidity). A purposeful (useful) life is that which itself moves with a salubrious and sturdy gaiety and with its moving also infuses the spirit of amelioration into other weak lives. Rightness of Decisive Life: In the definition of life as decisive, the word decisive can (with an angle of vision) be written as subject to the predicate (=decision). If we can assimilate this exposition, we can easily understand the predicate right also joined to It. That decisive faculty exists in every life and in propor Jain Education International 21 For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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