Are all the fingers in your hand equal? Are all the people in the world similar? Are all the tress same? Are all the parents similar? Does water all around the world tastes same? Does the air in every corner smell same? I believe you will agree that the answer to all the questions above is ‘No”.
I would like to explain it under three principles:
Duality
If we have evils in this world then we have goodness too, if we have fire then we have water too, if we see intelligence then we witness ignorance too, we have rich then we have poor. Just like a coin has two faces there exists a duality of each characteristic in this world. In fact this duality forms the basis of the beauty of this world, duality is in each and every creation of nature whether sea, desert, forests, mountains etc.
Relativity
Every time we hear this word, relativity, a funny looking grey haired man comes to our mind, Albert Einstein. He was indeed a genius; his theory can be applied in every walk of life. Here in our context it is as follows: We can say a person is good because we have someone who is not so good, a person is dark because we have someone who is fair, water is cool because we have fire etc. The point I want to make here that someone is fast because there is someone for sure who is slow.
Polarity
Water flows from higher altitude to lower altitude, air moves from high pressure to low pressure, heat from high temperature to low temperature etc. In each and every case we have two poles, two extremes and there is a continuous flow between these two poles till both are at same state. So, this means for the flow to happen there has to be a difference or there has to be inequality. We have a life because there are two poles – birth and death, a continuous flow from birth to death is the life and the day a state of equality is reached the flow stops.
So, by above examples/principles it is evident that inequality exists inherently in this world; from an atom to a galaxy no two are equal. What we should try to understand is the existence of two extremes and the importance of flow between them.
“It’s not the state of equality but the pursuit of equality”
