Thursday, 18 July 2019

Where is evil?


Master: Where is evil? In the rat, whose nature it is to steal grain. Or in the cat? Whose nature it is to kill the rat.

The Prince: The rat steals. Yet for him the cat is evil.

Master: And to the cat, the rat.
The Prince: Yet master, surely one of them is evil.

Master: The rat does not steal. The cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a hill remains. Each acts according to its nature.

The Prince: Then is there no evil for men? If a man hurts me, and I punish him - perhaps he will not hurt another and if I do nothing he will believe that there is no punishment and he may do as he wishes.

Master: Perhaps! Or perhaps he will learn that some men receive injury, but return kindness

See the way of life as a stream. A man floats, and his way is smooth. The same man turning to move upstream, exhausts himself. Be one with the universe and follow it

Appreciate this philosophy using the words of Lord Krishna in the treatise Bhagavad-Gita’s (verse by verse translation) in this link https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07S3L25TP

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