As Sri Krishna mentors Arjuna, peace or equality is not achieved by running away from battlefield. It is indeed in the battlefield of life that peace is achieved. Because if you run away then there is no guarantee that you will not face those same battles in more difficult situations.
War and peace are two sides of the same perspective. When you are prepared for war, you are in peace/equality, in times of peace and war both.
A year ago I read a quote from the Mother on the notice board of the Ashram. It showed how much Mother believed in the concept of dynamic equality. I don’t remember the exact words but I remember the theme. So I am describing the theme as the concluding remark on dynamic equality.
…I don’t believe in that form of spirituality which ends into the tip of the nose. This is escapism. I believe in a spirituality which manifests into life in different forms of expression dynamically and vibrantly…
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“Equality does not mean a fresh ignorance or blindness; it does not call for and need not initiate a greyness of vision and a blotting out of all hues. Difference is there, variation of expression is there and this variation we shall appreciate, far more justly than we could when the eye was clouded by a partial and erring love and hate, admiration and scorn, sympathy and antipathy, attraction and repulsion. But behind the variation we shall always see the Complete and Immutable who dwells within it and we shall feel, know or at least, if it is hidden from us, trust in the wise purpose and divine necessity of the particular manifestation, whether it appear to our human standards harmonious and perfect or crude and unfinished or even false and evil.”
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga,