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to hinder human progress at every step. A great difficulty arises when one attempts
As one gradually learns to control desires, to refine one’s personality and embark on a
one increasingly builds up equipoise in journey of personal growth. The recalcitrant
ordinary circumstances of life. One is not parts of the being are unequally interspersed
inflated by success and not demoralised by with each other and the task of harmonising
defeat. In addition, when one learns not to them is made more hazardous by the ego
react to people who harbour enmity, one which is skewed, biased and unequal in
is immediately relieved of a huge load of its functioning, exaggerating one or other
anguish and revenge that one was even part of the being leading to disharmony and
covertly carrying within oneself. This enables disequilibrium. Indeed this state of affairs
one to review things from a poise stationed leads to a mismatch between different planes
above the ordinary thinking mind and to take of consciousness resulting in a plethora of
more correct decisions. When the equipoise diseases. The redemption comes by shifting
reaches an optimal level, one is capable of the centre of the being from the superficial
receiving intuitive insights that can solve ego to the fourth-dimensional integrating
many problems which so long had troubled principle, the Psychic Being poised deep in
and clouded the mind. the inner recesses of the being. The Psychic
Being restores the fundamental equality in
Equality in the body the being, establishing a reign of harmony
and equilibrium. Simultaneously, the
It is not enough to establish equipoise deeper planes of consciousness underlying
in the cognitive and emotional levels of the physical vital and mental planes of
functioning, one has also to establish it in consciousness have to be equally developed
the physical consciousness, in the body. This so as to act as perfect instruments of the
sounds strange because we cannot directly Psychic Being. Only then can an ideal soul-
give suggestions to the body; at best we equipoise be achieved.
can submit the body to a willed discipline
as expert sportspersons and Hatha yogis Equality as yoga
can do. This discipline can be refined and
intensified to modify the body’s reaction It would be pertinent to pause and reflect as
to any adverse situation like a disease. The to why it is so laborious to cultivate and enjoy
Mother describes, “Suppose you have a pain equality in both individual and collective
somewhere; the instinct (the instinct of the body, life. Obviously this happens because of the
the instinct of the cells) is to shrink and to seek all-pervading influence and existence of
to reject — that is the worst thing, that increases inequality in the manifestation itself. The
it invariably. Therefore, the first thing to teach primal equality and harmony in primeval
the body is to remain immobile, to have no nature was broken so that civilisation could
reaction; above all, no shrinking, not even a progress in all directions. Naturally each
movement of rejection — a perfect immobility. line of progress was achieved at the cost of
That is bodily equality (1).” suppression of some other line and inequality
became inevitable. Thus wherever knowledge
Soul-equipoise progressed in a concentrated and focused
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