Hello,
We can not accept others as we are fragmented in mind, our mind is separatist and is not spiritual. Spirituality means to see one in all.
Materialistic mind is exploiting everything, and will bully others sometime directly sometime indirectly. Spiritual mind is living with others.
Lets understand how it is.
All men are equal only at the level of their core, center, essence. Otherwise, people are very different and unequal.
At the core, not only are all men the same, but even rivers, mountains, animals, vacuüm, space, time have the same essence. So, only a mind that lives very close to the core – a spiritual mind – has the right to assert that all is same, or equal. Only a mind that genuinely perceives a mystical oneness in all existence is entitled to say that ‘all are equal’. All diversity that appears to be, is just a manifestation of the One – this is the true meaning of equality.
Unfortunately, the right to equality is talked of, and exploited, the most by those who only see differences when they look around. These are narrow and fragmented minds who deeply believe in their own separate identity from the rest of existence. The one who says ‘I am X’ or ‘I am Y’ surely believes in a self that is separate and divided from others. That is the basis of identities and identification. Such a mind lives by its ego, which it arrogantly calls as individuality. It deeply believes in differences and hence, inequality.
Now look at the contradiction. This minds says, ‘I am separate, and I relish my separateness’, and ‘All are equal’. If you pay attention, you will see that these two statements cannot really be made together. But the inattentive mind doesn’t go deep and doesn’t realise.
Modernity has given us a false sense of individuality- ego. And it has also given us egalitarian values- liberty, equality, fraternity. We do not realise that ego-individuality simply does not go with liberty or equality or fraternity.
That is why there is so much strife in the world today. All the systems- educational, political, social, legal, markets- are just protecting and promoting ego-individuality. A sense of separation. The feeling of ‘me’ness: my rights, my choices, my thoughts, my opinions, my life! Obviously such systems may pay lip service to equality, but will really only produce more and more division and strife.
Only spirituality- the ability to see the One in all- can give real equality and freedom and peace.
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