Equanimity Philosophy and Practice

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

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different times throw off the unrestrained yoke of this absolutism. With this emancipation commences the chapter of democracy. The strength of peoples will begin to manifest and the Republican Government begin to form. Parliamentary democracy was founded on this basis. Democracy has been shortly defined as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It specified the position that an individual will not supervene but that of the multitude will prevail. An individual can be good as also bad, or an individual can once be good, at other times bad, hence from the equanimous point of view it is not deemed judicious that innumerable persons may depend on the will of an individual. The will of an assemblage does not change all of a sudden, nor can it easily incline towards impropriety hence the efforts of giving priority to the collective will take the shape of democracy.
In the form of Democracy, the political equality was established, that each big or small citizen has the equal right to cast one vote, and the representative be elected by the majority of vote. This is a separate question, that an individual being subjugated by self-interest can ruin even the best arrangement. But the objective of democracy is that for the purpose of public good and public equality, the unbridled ambitions of an individual be kept under control.
With the progress of thoughts, efforts begin to make this goal successful in the economic and social fields. These efforts struck cracking blows on the man made economic dis-similarities, and out of the social principles so evolved socialism and communism stand prominent. The development of these principles took place gradually and Karl
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