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## Description of Equality
**Yoga Shastra, Fourth Light, Verses 53-54**
"It is a verbal delight." This solves the problem that when one practices self-knowledge, with the destruction of the karma that obscures knowledge, one who has thoroughly decided on the nature of the self, who has experienced it, can separate the self, the living being, and karma with the Samayik rod. He repeatedly confirms the self through self-awareness - self-experience - that the karma that covers the nature of the self is different from the self. The same seeker, by the power of the Paramasamayik, separates the living being and karma. || 52 ||
By the power of self-certainty, the seeker not only separates karma, but also shows the self the nature of the Supreme Self. This is called:
|| 379. Ragadi-dhvanta-vidhvanse, krte samayaikamsuna | Svasmin swarupam pasyanti, yoginah paramaatmanah || 53 ||
**Meaning:** When the darkness of attachment, aversion, and delusion is destroyed by the sun of Samayik, yogis see the nature of the Supreme Self in their own self. || 53 ||
**Explanation:** Since they obstruct the nature of the self, attachment, aversion, and delusion are darkness. Their destruction is by the sun of Samayik. Therefore, the nature of the Supreme Self is inherently present in every self; yogis begin to see that nature. In reality, if we consider it, all selves are the nature of the Supreme Self. In every self, only a part of knowledge is present. In the Agamas, the great sages have said: "Savvajivaanam pi anan akkharassaanantbhaago nicchugghhaadio cheva." That is, in all living beings, an infinite part of the letter is always uncovered. (Nandi Sutra 77) It is only because of being contaminated by the defects of attachment, aversion, and delusion that the nature of the Supreme Self does not manifest in the self. When the light of the sun of Samayik shines, the darkness of attachment, aversion, and delusion is removed, and the nature of the Supreme Self manifests in the self. || 53 ||
Now we describe the effect of equality:
|| 380. Snihyanti jantavo nityam vairino'pi parasparam | Api swarthakrte samyabhajah sadhoh prabhavatha || 54 ||
**Meaning:** Although the virtuous practice equality for their own sake, the glory of equality is so wonderful that its effect causes even creatures like snakes and mongooses, who are always enemies, to hold mutual love. || 54 ||
**Explanation:**
The point is that equality has such an effect that even if the virtuous practice equality for their own sake, eternal enemies begin to have mutual friendship. Therefore, learned people praise: "O God! The elephant scratches its cheek with its trunk, pulling the foot of the lion. The snake stands blocking the path of the mongoose. The lion stands ready with its mouth open like a vast cave; but the deer repeatedly sniffs it with trust. Where even such cruel animals become calm, I praise the place of equality - the place of sameness. The scriptures also praise the yogi who is united with equality in this way. Going to yogis removes enmity."
The inner meaning of the verses on this topic is: Equality is that which does not waver in mind between conscious and unconscious matter, between what is desirable and what is undesirable. If someone comes and applies sandalwood paste to the body, or someone pierces the arms with a weapon, yet the mind remains free from attachment and aversion, that is called supreme equality. If someone praises, there is no delight in it, and if someone curses - insults, there is no aversion to it, but the mind remains equal towards both, then that seeker is immersed in equality. There is no need to perform any kind of fire sacrifice, austerity, or charity in this. In fact, this liberation comes only from equality, which is bought without price. What is the benefit of worshipping attachment, aversion, etc., which are difficult to achieve through great effort? Because this beautiful happiness, which is obtained without effort, is given by equality itself. Take refuge in this. The atheist who does not believe in the indirect, will not believe in heaven and liberation; but he will not be able to deny the happiness of equality, which is born of self-experience. Why are you foolish, being engrossed in the talk of poets, in that imagined nectar? O fool! Drink the nectar of equality, which is the taste of self-awareness. The virtuous, who are averse to the tastes that are fit to be eaten, licked, drunk, and sucked,
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