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🌍 Sastry On Today: Equilibrium — The Invisible Hand of the Universe

If you observe closely, the world looks like a badly managed street play.

Markets crash, leaders shout, borders burn, storms brew, and galaxies collide.

Yet, even in this noisy carnival of chaos, there is something deeper humming in quiet rhythm — equilibrium.

Nature has always known the trick.

A tree falls in the forest; a hundred saplings rise in its shadow.

Rivers flood in fury, only to leave behind silt and fertility.

The tiger hunts the deer, the deer grazes the grass, the grass waits patiently for the sun.

A cruel choreography perhaps, but one that ensures no single dancer hogs the stage forever.

And what of us, the grandly self-appointed custodians of Earth?

We, too, oscillate between excess and restraint, pride and humility, ambition and despair.

Yet, societies somehow stagger back toward balance. Revolutions burn out, tyrants fade, innovations replace obsolescence, and pandemics give way to vaccines.

The pendulum swings wildly, but the clock keeps time.

Even the universe, that stage beyond stages, is not exempt.

Stars collapse into black holes, yet in that collapse, new galaxies are born.

The cosmos expands, but not recklessly—it is tuned to a precision that would make even the best violinist weep.

Chaos births order; order slides into chaos. Back and forth, endlessly, like the breath of Brahman.

The real question, my friends, is not whether equilibrium exists. It does, stubbornly so.

The question is whether we have the wit to recognize it before we wear ourselves out with panic.

We complain about “uncertainty” as if certainty was ever promised.

We shake our fists at “instability,” forgetting that the only true instability is when nothing changes at all.

Equilibrium is not about things standing still.

It is about things moving in opposite directions at just the right pace to cancel each other’s arrogance.

Think of it like a marriage: not the absence of quarrel, but the mysterious persistence of togetherness despite quarrel.

So when you scroll through the day’s headlines—tariffs, wars, scandals, floods—remember this:

The universe has seen bigger dramas and survived with a straight face.

Your task is not to control the swing but to find your rhythm within it.

As Sastry might chuckle, “Even the hurricane bows to equilibrium, eventually. Why should you and I be any different?”