Spiritual traditions have called for ‘equanimity’ of mind. No doubt such a sense of balance helps in coping up with day to day challenges at the internal state of an individual mind. Hence a necessity to cultivate such a state of mind. A point however missed out are what causes this ‘imbalance’. Whether it is the ‘individual’ or a society negating ‘equality’ which create such conditions of imbalance. Lack of equality create conditions of fear, insecurity, anxiety, worries and thus result in imbalance. This is for both who are at opposite ends of the spectrum – beneficiaries of an unequal system and also those who at the receiving end of the unequal system. No doubt equanimity of individual mind is important. But more than that equality in society. Equality liberates both.
© T Navin