Book Title: Equanimity Philosophy and Practice
Author(s): Nanesh Acharya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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________________ potentiality also uprises. Acquisition of status from onesense organ to five-sense organ and then to human level, is the result of this gradational evolution. In order that this determinative stamina in human life may thrive more and be more definite, he must accelerate his paces in the advancement of knowledge, faith and conduct. Examination of the Stratum (Root) of the Determinative Faculty The awakening and progress of the determinative faculty is based on this ken that the driver of a car be understood i.e. the intrinsic soul substance be experienced. One who has comprehended the stratum of 'I', he relinquishes his attachment (Myness) to the visible external things. Where this attachment is forsaken there emerges not only the determinative faculty but the right determinative faculty. If the driver of the car harbours the selfishness that I may save myself and crush down those who are not mine, in that case can the movement of the car be safe and smooth? No. After deviating mind from the attachment of material things one should regulate and discipline himself, then consciousness of right determinative faculty wakes up, and on its being vigilant expansion of inequanimity is not possible. Again whatever anomaly persists, it also vanishes gradually, after the birth of this right determinative faculty, the peaceful nectar of equanimity then begins to flow in an individual and from each individual to the society on one side and on the other side begins to flow into the weaker individuals by the societary influence, and by this flow the domain of real prosperity expands in all the fields of life. Jain Education International 25 For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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