How can we become equally disposed toward every living entity?

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Hare Krishna Question from Chiranjeevi Prabhu How can we become equally disposed Towards all living beings? Answer Firstly it is by Philosophical understanding And then over a period of time It is by practical realization By philosophical understanding We learn to see Beyond externals The uninformed eye The uneducated eye just sees externals But the educated eye Sees beyond externals So People are attracted to worldly things Or people are repelled from worldly things Depending on how they look But a wise person Learns to see beyond externals To substance And that’s what philosophy is meant to help us do So the more we practice philosophy The more we study the philosophy Understand it Then we can Move towards this Inclusive universal understanding Of treating all living beings equally Now treating all living beings equally Doesn’t mean that We Become absolutely equal Towards everyone No, we are human beings And we have certain natures And naturally We will be more able to relate with some people And less able to relate with some people So that is natural And we cannot befriend Everyone equally Some people will be very intimate friends So we will have circles of intimacy Some people will be very very close Some people will be slightly close but not so close Some people will be sort of Official friends Some people will be acquaintances Like that there will be different circles But essentially the spiritual vision Will enable us to see All living beings equally In the sense that All of them are equal as souls Actually Prabhupada explains that There is a soul in the tiger’s body also But treating all living beings equally Doesn’t mean That we go and embrace a tiger We won’t be left to embrace anyone after that At least our body won’t be left We will die. So we can’t do that So Treating all living beings equally means Seeing the Spiritual identity of all living beings And working As much as possible according to our capacity For their spiritual well being So even the madhyamadhikari Who is an intermediate level devotee Has spiritual vision But then what are the characteristics of madhyamadhikari Madhyamadhikar differentiates Differentiate that means Ok these people are devotees I will befriend them so that I will make spiritual advancement But these people are Innocent. Let me share about Krishna With them so that they will also come closer to Krishna and be benefited And then these people are Offensive.
They are aggressively atheist If I speak Krishna’s glories to them They will become all the more offensive and blasphemous Therefore let me keep a distance From them and let me offer My prayers for them from a distance And that’s how I can do good to them So the overall Understanding is that I want to do good to Everyone. I do good to devotees by Assisting them in their service to Krishna I do good to innocent people by giving them Krishna’s message and I do good to the Envious and blasphemous people By By not giving them opportunities For further blasphemy and by Praying for their well being So treating all Equally doesn’t mean that I have to act equally with everyone It simply means that At a deeper Philosophical level understand that Everybody is spiritual and then According to time, place, circumstance I see how I can benefit That person the best And then act accordingly So Srila Prabhupada Had the equal vision in the sense that He went all over the world To people, whoever he met And he tried to give them Krishna to all of them And yet sometimes he saw that Some people were very aggressively Anti-devotional against the Krishna conscious movement and the Philosophy. Then Srila Prabhupada Very vigorously defended The Krishna conscious movement against them So this Bhagavad Gita is telling Arjuna To be equally disposed but then Arjuna Fought a war.
So was he Equally disposed towards Yudhishtira and Duryodhana also? He was but that did not mean equal Disposition doesn’t mean equal action Equal disposition Was there in the sense that he saw Both of them as spiritual and he recognized That both of them are ultimately parts of Krishna But one part of Krishna Is serving Krishna In a wonderful way and so I should assist him in that service So Arjuna acted as a servant of Yudhishtira and assisted Yudhishtira In the In ruling the world. But in the same Arjuna He attacked Duryodhana He fought against Duryodhana Why? Because Duryodhana had such a Deep rooted animosity Towards Krishna that In this lifetime it was difficult for him to be Reformed. So just like a surgery Sometimes required to amputate To cut off a bad Deceased part.
Similarly A surgical Amputation was required so that Duryodhana would get the Consequences of his demoniac mentality And then in later life he would Have a possibility to become purified So Arjuna had equal Disposition towards all But equal disposition doesn’t mean identical Action towards all. There is Appropriate action that will help Everybody to make spiritual advancement So by Proper philosophical understanding and then Realization of how That philosophical understanding that Wanting to see all living beings equally and Benefit all of them. How that is to be Applied properly through Realization.
By that we can apply The Gita verse of Of being equal towards all living beings. Thank you. Hare Krishna