Since knowledge, desirelessness, impersonality, equality, the inner self-existent peace and bliss,freedom from or at least superiority to the tangled interlocking of the three modes of Nature are the signs of the liberated soul, they must accompany it irrall its activities. They are the condition of that unalterable calm which this soul preserves in all the movement, all the shock, all the clash of forces which surround itin the world. That calm reflects the equable immutability of the Brahman in the midst of all mutations,and it belongs to the indivisible and impartial Oneness which is for ever immanent jn all the multiplicities of the universe, For an equal and all-equalising spirit is that Oneness in the midst of the million differences and inequalities of the world ; and equality of the spirit is the sole real equality. For in all else in existence there can only be similarity, adjustment and balance; but even in the greatest similarities of the world we find difference of inequality and difference of unlikeness and the adjusted balancings of the world can only come about by a poising of com- bined unequal weights.
Hence the immense importance attached by the Gita in its elements of Karmayoga to equality ; it is the nodus of the free spirit’s free relations with the world. Self-knowledge, desirelessness, impersonality, bliss, free- dom from the modes of Nature, when withdrawn into themselves, self-absorbed, inactive, have no need of equality; for they take no cognizance of the things in
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