Good-Evil – Mystery?

 

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Good-Evil – Mystery?

In human beings we see that some people enjoy marvellous health, and some people have been ailing and sick from the very beginning of their lives. We always rationalise saying that this is the Law of Karma. And still karma alone doesn’t seem enough to explain everything. It is definitely true that people reap the result of their evil actions. But who is it that creates those impulses in us which induce us into such evil actions in the first place? We say that we are made in the image of God, then logically our innate nature has to be good, isn’t it! We have not created negative emotions such as hate, jealousy, anger, greed and so on – but they are there.

The question also arises why is there mass destruction and death from floods, other natural disasters which do not make a distinction between good or evil. In such cases people from both sides of the spectrum fall a victim to such disasters. It is human beings that created the vicious bacteria and virus which have resulted in a global pandemic resulting in the death of countless people – again death has not made a distinction between good and bad. Our karma may have made us susceptible to these misfortunes, but we didn’t create them!

Why are these evils created? Who created them? Well, God is responsible for everything, including the Cosmic Delusion or Maya, which is the source of evil in our cosmos and in our lives. If that is so, then who is responsible for redeeming us – God or Universal Consciousness, isn’t it! There is always a purpose for what is happening in our lives – we do not have that 360-degree overview to find out the reason for everything. Because of this we are affected and become stressed.

Remember, no matter what we have to go through in life, one day we will have a complete understanding of the cosmic play, hopefully it could be on the last day of this life. But till then it is fruitless to try and figure this out.

There seems to be no interpretation of the law of karma that would affect the loss of tens of thousands of lives in such natural or man-made disasters. And yet there is a law that is secretly moving through everything – through all the seemingly contrary dualities of maya. There is no way we can understand this law, but we can definitely acknowledge the division between ignorance and wisdom and accept that God has hidden Himself behind the veil of maya.

Supreme Consciousness is the ultimate truth – God in this form is present in all of us as the atma – pain-proof, blissful and immortal. God has given us the free will and intelligence that we may seek to unveil this truth and thereby solve this mystery of life!