Acharya Prashant addresses the question of whether a person who sees everything with equanimity (sam-bhav) can engage in unrighteousness (adharma). He affirms that this is possible if one misunderstands the concept. For most people, 'sam' means equality, leading to the foolish notion of equating two different things, such as someone scoring 99% and someone scoring 9%. This is a flawed and foolish interpretation of equality. The true spiritual meaning of 'sam-bhav', as taught by Shri Krishna, is not about equating external objects. Instead, it means to remain unaffected by what one is observing. It is to remain 'sam' (the same) as one's true, eternal Self (Atma), which is always constant and unaffected by the dualities of the world like pleasure-pain or gain-loss. The equality is not between the two things being observed, but between one's current state and one's unchanging, timeless Self. 'Sam-bhav' is essentially 'Atma-bhav' (the state of the Self) or 'Sat-bhav' (the state of Truth). Acharya Prashant explains that before birth, one is the Self, but after birth, one becomes the mind, which is easily influenced and thus loses its equanimity. To practice 'sam-bhav' is to maintain the original, unaffected state of the Self. When one is established in the Self, one becomes all-knowing and can clearly distinguish between dharma and adharma. While the Self itself is beyond dharma, the individual (jiva) has a dharma. An individual established in the Self will naturally and always act in favor of dharma. The modern spiritual idea that 'everything is the same, so anything is permissible' is a dangerous myth. If one's understanding of equanimity is to equate everything externally, then unrighteousness is guaranteed.