The World: Good or Evil?

When uncertainty hits us humans tend to reflect and look at whole picture and judge if it's good or bad world but, the takeaway there are simply no right answers. All the answers are based on individuals experience and perspectives and the more answers we hear about it the more we learn and realize.

It is human nature to get disenchanted with the world when we see around us much trouble,violence, crime and degradation of values. It makes us worry over what is in store for future generations.

However, the present time is as good or as bad as any other time and the state of the world and society could not be some thing other than what it is now.

Even during periods that are perceived to be better than ours, our predecessors have poured out their anguish at the declining moral and ethical standards then prevalent. Seers and social reformers have been on a mission since ages to combat negative forces and reform society. Was human society ever better than it is now?Deceit, treachery crimes and court intrigues fill the pages of history.

Unalloyed happiness is impossible because the world cannot exist except as an amalgam of the good and bad. Negativity cannot survive by itself. It needs the support of some good alongside to survive. The classic example can be taken from our ancient Mahabharat the Kauravas thrived because of Bhishma, Dronacharya and Karna. Once these eminent men departed, the Kauravas had to go.

On the flip side, pure good also cannot survive all by itself. Pure good would sublimate and merge with the Supreme Force without trace. We might ask: How did saintly souls like Christ, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Tukaram, Guru Nanak and others lead a pure life? How can we associate them with any form of negativity? The reason for their living through the appointed time is twofold. First, their own past karma kept them grounded here. Second, although they did not commit any sin, the sins got stuck to them. It is people like us who prostrated before them, sought their blessings and deposited our sins at their feet. Is it not said that Jesus bore the cross for the sake of the sinners?

Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita : “Whenever adharma surpasses the limit He will incarnate on earth.” That He has not done so yet implies that the evil, which we fret about, has not transcended limits.

The collective goodness of mankind seeks a medium to express itself and manifests as godliness in few individuals whom we worship as saints and prophets. Likewise the collective evil within all of us seeks to find an expression and manifests in a few individuals whom we call as demons. There is enough goodness outside of us and we need to focus only our attention on the canvas instead of the picture.

Like the old saying goes you become whichever wolves you feed.( Based on common anecdote of two methaphorised consciousness i.e. good and bad wolves in human )