What in the world is the most equal?

If cause and effect belong to this world, then cause and effect are the most utterly impartial: wholesome actions bring wholesome retribution, and unwholesome actions bring unwholesome retribution; when the time comes, the retributions for good and evil manifest, and there is no escaping them. Some say the virus is the most impartial—regardless of rich or poor, powerful or powerless, regardless of men, women, old, or young, anyone can be infected by the virus. Yet some people simply do not get infected and do not fall ill. Death, however, is different: no matter who one is, death is certain. Those who possess the fourth dhyāna of meditative concentration can extend their lifespan, yet in the end they still perish along with the body of the five aggregates. The Buddha could remain in the world for several great kalpas or even countless kalpas, yet in the end He too had to step down and leave the lands He Himself had established.