Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

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

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cause to loose hope or be frustrated in achieving the goal. This very thinking has clarified the position that 'soul is supreme soul' i.e. there is no separate Entity like Creator (providence) which always remains as Creator. But the very soul when it accomplishes the highest Evolution by its disciplined conduct, then it achieves the supreme status and betakes the form of Supreme being. This Supreme Being is almighty and all knowing (Omniscient) but he has no connection whatsoever at that stage with the world.
Mahavira blew this trumpet of Revolution that God did not create the universe and pronounced that hypothes is wrong which says that not a single leaf can stir without His (God) will. He expounded the creation of the universe to be based on beginning less karma element and laid the foundation of spiritual Equality on which it became easy to erect the building of Equanimity.
First of all Equanimous Vision :
On the basis of Spiritual Equality (identity) Mahavira imparted the message to be first of Equanimous vision (view of even mindedness, free of attachment and aversion) He emphasised this as the Magna Charta of Life's Evolution. The literal meaning of Samdrashti is 'equipoised vision', but its implied interpretation is very deep and worth considering.
So long as a man's mind is not equipoised and disciplined, till then he clashes against the blows and counter blows of his thinking. His tendencies are so unsteady in the ups and downs of perturbedness that he looses discretion of right or wrong. You know that the instability of mind
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