Guiding Light
TRUE LIBERATION FROM ‘EVIL’ …… Continued From Last Week
THE question that arises is that why should Almighty take it upon Himself to create evil and accept the onus of making man fight the evil force? Moreover, how can God, who is all good and is perfectly holy, reconcile His virtuous nature with the act of creating evil?. To counter all these views, surprisingly there is yet another class of philosophers who, in order to evade all these problems say that, actually, there is no evil in the world but man only experiences it. This explanation of evil contradicts and rejects the evidence of human experience. Moreover, it reduces all moral and religious teachings to something having no sense. It is an argument which even commonsense and everyday experience demur to accept because no one can deny that evil is real, it does exist and it is a part of our experience. So, after getting confused & jumbled by different views on evil, one really gets disgruntled & haplessly seeks the right answer from Almighty and as a loveful Father to his beloved children HE too reveals the truth. HE says that evil exists at the material, biological, intellectual and spiritual levels. At the material level, it exists as evil traits , at mental level it is present as perverted understanding and it is there at moral and spiritual levels as distortion of Truth, as ignorance of the self, as debasement of values and as vices. But, the fact is that HE has not created this. HE created man holy in His own image. Thats why human soul is, in its original nature pure and has the quality of love and peace. However, in course of time, man, who is imperfect, became bodyconscious, forgetting his real self, and thus his quality of love got perverted into sex, greed, gluttony and attachment and it brought in its wake, jealousy, hatred, anger and pride. Thus, evil is of man's own creation and it entered the world not at'God's bidding but as perverted form of man's love, and as man's forgetfulness of the self. Hence, if we understand the nature of evil, we will be able to eradicate it by our own efforts, aided by Almighty Supreme who is perfectly-Holy. So, lets remain in consciousness of our original nature i.e of a soul & get liberated from evil.