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lops, then it should be concluded that equanimity is budding forth in the mind.
Efforts made to bring equality outside but internal disharmony is not removed then the outer equality though gained through coercive method would not be long lasting because of the internal disharmony. A banner which is waving in the winds of high firmament, has no fixed direction. It turns in the direction where in the wind blows. But the pole or mast of that banner always remains stable. Therefore, for the development of equanimity efforts be made to remain like a pole or a mast which remains stable and stead-fast. Then equanimity will go on evolving by minutest proportion.
Touch Stone of Life :
Under the aphorism 'what is life', we get some information about the touch-stone of life. After assessing the position of the inanimate and animate and deviating from the attitudes of attachment and hatred when the determinativefaculty and temperate disposition flourishes, then life takes a purposeful turn. Hence the touch-stone of life will be how much one is infatuated in the inanimate things, how much dynamic faith and conviction he displays towards the conscious force, as also how much stable and indifferent can he keep the mind, or is he entangled in the outside marsh after forgetting himself in the mental waveringness ? On this touch-stone can be estimated the vitality of any one's life.
This touch-stone shall be for the estimation of an individual life and also for the collective life of different small or big groups. Essentially, this whole test can be defined as
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