Is Equality a Passive Acceptance?
Achieving the balance between equality and inert passivity is difficult for the human mind, as we tend to prefer clear 'black and white' choices rather than any kind of nuanced approach. Equality refers to the psychological poise with which one receives all impressions, sensations, circumstances, and forces that act upon the being. This does not imply that one must meekly accept whatever comes as the 'will of the Divine". The equality and ability to maintain calm is a function of the external nature. This allows the seeker to maintain his aspiration and focus toward the Divine. It is the psychic being, in contact with the Divine, that knows 'the thing to be done'. Outer circumstances do not generally favor the transformation process that the psychic being has accepted, and thus, opposition, difficulties, obstructions will frequently arise as the existing forces of the status quo try to maintain their control and ascendancy. It is the very process of the evoluti...