Equality

Treat pleasure and pain equally, gain and loss equally, victory and defeat equally — then engage in battle. In this way you will not incur sin.

I am equally disposed toward all beings; none is hateful to Me, none is dear; yet those who worship Me with devotion — they are in Me and I am in them.

One who sees everywhere the same — whether in joy or in suffering — by likening others to oneself, O Arjuna, that yogi is held to be the highest.

The one whose self is yoked in yoga, seeing equally in all directions, beholds the self abiding in all beings and all beings abiding in the self.

The truly learned see with equal vision a brahmin adorned with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog or an outcaste who cooks dogs.

Kabir would say, 'The God with form is my Mother, and the formless God is my Father. Who should I blame or worship? Both sides of the scale are equal.'

For even those born of sinful wombs — women, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras — taking refuge in Me, they too reach the highest destination.

One who holds equal vision toward the well-wisher, the friend, the enemy, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, the kin, the virtuous, and the sinful — that person stands above all.

Even here in this life, rebirth is conquered by those whose minds are established in equanimity. Brahman is flawless and equal — therefore they abide in Brahman.

When a child is born, there is no symbol to indicate that it belongs to a particular religion or caste. The distinction of man is only that he is man. It is the same divine light that dwells in every human being. It is therefore essential that after taking birth as a human being one must behave like a human being.

Salutations to the Guru — by whose knowledge the universe is no longer seen as fractured into separate parts, who is ever one, whose form is forever the same undivided wholeness.

When there is light of God-knowledge, we realise the truth that no human being is a stranger, nobody is high and nobody is low. Thereafter, man treats everybody as an image of God. He devotes himself to the service of all. He loves all. All kinds of hatred and jealousy are gone.

All human beings in the world have soul in them. In terms of soul, they are all equal. A person who works for the division of humanity cannot be known as religious. He remains irreligious because religion always unites.

Once man knows God, all his feelings of discrimination are gone. The walls dividing the high and low do not stand any more. One sees the image of God in all human beings.

Once we know this God, all misgivings and misapprehensions are over. The sense of difference between our own and strangers is gone. The walls that tend to divide people as high and low on the basis of caste are shattered. There is no hatred, there is no malice. This life is automatically filled with joy.

The dispute is not that of languages, neither states nor nations; the problem lies in not treating others as our own, in treating them as lower than ourselves, inferior to ourselves.

He who remains equal-minded whether honored by the good or tormented by the wicked—he is held to be liberated while living (jivanmukta).

Therefore, even if one who knows this were to give his leftover food to a chandala, it would still be offered in his own Vaishvanara Self. On this there is this verse:

He is also emancipated who looks upon life and death, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, and agreeable and disagreeable things with an equal mind.

Saints speak of love, humanity and universal brotherhood. They preach equality only, saying that all human beings are the creation of the same God.