“ How can you watch a game without rooting for one team or the other? “

Rooting, cheering, taking sides, getting into emotional outbreaks, etc., involves identifying with one team or the other, and it is a typical scenario being played out all over.

Anytime you identify with anything, it BECOMES yours.

Its win is your win, and its loss is your loss, resulting in an emotional roller coaster.

Relating to anything and getting passionate about it makes you depart from your basal state of neutrality.

In a non-neutral state, you will take sides and may even become unfair to the other team ( or its fans ).

This is how deep the duality has gotten into our culture.

But staying neutral allows you to judge each team in a balanced state, evaluating both – their pluses and minuses.

In this state, you are one step above the rest of the crowd and enjoying the sport in its true sense.

At the end of the game, there are both winners and losers, with excited minds, but you can wash off the game from your mind quickly and keep enjoying the tranquility of freedom of a neutral state.

Not everyone understands this, of course, let alone live it.

Keeping neutrality ( Sthitpragnya state ) may seem to be a small thing when it comes to watching a game; for example,

but it becomes a big thing while watching the “Game of Life.”

The same neutrality is needed in judging various people, objects, etc.

Frequently we bring our personal choices forward and then judge the outside world, leading to discrimination – choosing one over the other, resulting in much suffering.

The path of spirituality is to raise our awareness over and beyond various dualities we have harbored in our minds.

The path needs full awareness.