Equality

Meaning: According to the line of Yajurved 18/48 — "God loves all castes equally with impartiality. The learned ones also follow this quality of God. But those persons who do not believe in the yardstick of excellence i.e. in qualities, deeds and loving nature, they deserve censure and dishonor.

Message: God the Supreme Father has made all men in the same physical form and has created the wonderful human body decorated with divine wealth. An inexhaustible storehouse of happiness and facilities is available all-round for all. No one is high or low or big or small in His eyes. All have received the same opportunity for progress in the world by using intelligence. It is a different matter that some people get trapped in bad thinking and had culture or bad habits and choose the path of moral downfall. God does not show partiality for anyone. For Him all human beings are dear, like His sons.

In the ancient times, four castes were created from the viewpoint of work and profession. This was a natural division because of which, the efficiency of work was enhanced according to worth, talents and situations. Difficulties started when, in the course of time, this division became the basis of considering some people as superior or high and some people as inferior or low. It is a matter of surprise that because of this division some people were considered untouchables and even water touched by them was considered unfit for drinking. In this way, in the name of religion, tyrannies were perpetrated on the 'shudras' (the section of the society engaged in working as menial laborers) and they were deprived of social and religious justice. In reality, religion teaches love and not hatred. Love is a wonderful sentiment in this world. It is not merely a physical experience, but an invaluable wealth of the mind and soul. Only love is the breath of life and the human society runs only on the basis of love. There is a very deep relationship between love and trust, and great enmity in the relationship of love and doubt. Where love exists, doubt does not exist there are where there is doubt, there is no love. Today there is the ruler ship of only doubt, fear, anarchy and lack of confidence. As a result there is a dearth of the feeling of mutual love and brotherhood and the inferior feeling of high and low prevails.

Actually a person committing evil deeds should be considered low and should be boycotted by the society, even though he may have been born in a Brahman-caste family. And it is but proper to honor a man on the basis of his knowledge, service to others; qualities and good, moral conduct even though he may be a shudra (lowly) by caste. Only that situation is proper when a person is honored or censured on the basis of the excellence or meanness of his character. But that situation does not seem logical where people are considered high or low on the basis of the caste of their origin despite others possessing similar qualities, performing similar good deeds and similarity of nature.

In every caste and dynasty there have been some excellent men and some evil men. In the Brahman caste there have been great sages like Vashishtha and Bhardwaj and evil men like Ravan and Kumbhakarna. If someone claims heritage on caste or dynastic basis, he will come across lowliness as well as excellence too. Ram and Krishna were kshatriyas (warrior caste), but Brahman caste also worship them. According to our religious books, any man can achieve 'Brahman-pad' i.e. be considered in the Brahman-category by excellent deeds and history and Purans (ancient scriptures) contain innumerable proofs of the above.

One who deals in a partial manner with others in contradiction to God's principles of justice is condemnable everywhere. We must always save ourselves from such sinful acts.