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Equality — The Foundation of Sadhana

There can be no firm foundation in sadhana without equal-
ity, samata. Whatever the unpleasantness of circumstances,
however disagreeable the conduct of others, you must learn
to receive them with a perfect calm and without any dis-
turbing reaction. These things are the test of equality. It is
easy to be calm and equal when things go well and people
and circumstances are pleasant; it is when they are the op-
posite that the completeness of the calm, peace, equality can
be tested, reinforced, made perfect.
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Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual conscious-
ness and it is this from which the sadhak deviates when he
allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or
speech or action.

CWSA 29: 129, 130

You have to move towards a firm basis of calm and equality
in the vital and physical no less than in the mental con-
sciousness; let there be the full downflow of Power and

Ananda, but into a firm adhara capable of containing it — it
is a complete equality that gives that capacity and firmness.

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When the peace of the higher consciousness descends, it
brings always with it this tendency towards equality, sa-
mata, because without samata peace is always liable to be

a acked by the waves of the lower nature.
CWSA 29: 127, 128

... two largest and highest states or powers of consciousness,

equality and oneness. ... A aining to a perfect equality in
the soul, mind and heart, we realise our true self of oneness,

All India Magazine, October 2020