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our equanimity of mind and then make an endeavour to eradicate them. It is very easy to say that one should observe the equanimity of mind, but in practice it is very difficult to attain it,as our menial faculty is always in grip of attachment and aversion. What so ever we think or do, is always motivated by either attachment or aversion? The factors of attachment and aversion are solely responsible for the disturbance of mental equanimity. So the practice to attain equanimity depends on the eradication of attachment and aversion, So long as we do not eradicate the attachment and aversion, we are unable to attain equanimity.
Now, our attention turns to the eradication of attachment and aversion. How we can get rid of these two enemies of equanimity. Attachment is another name of mineness and this mineness can only be uprooted through the contemplation of Ektva Bhavana and Anyatva Bhavana i.e. nothing is mine except my own self. In canonical texts, it is mentioned that if we want to conquer the mineness, we must have to contemplate on the transitory nature of worldly things as well as of our own body. Only who perceives that the death is coming nearer and nearer every moment, can see the things in their right perspective. Samyagdarśana is nothing but to have a proper understanding of the worldly things. One, who perceives one's own death and transitory nature of things, can never be attached to them. When mineness disappears, otherness also disappears. For, these two are the relative terms and without one, other also loses its meaning. When the idea of mineness as well as otherness dissolve, attachment and aversion disappear and equanimity dawns.
There is only one way to attain the equanimity of mind and that is through the contemplation of real nature of one's own self as well as of worldly things. One can eradicate the factors of
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