Evil and Free Will
If there is evil, there
is free will to win over it. There is much less evil and injustice on the
planet earth as compared to the vast spread of love and understanding.
Yet, it is more visible than good, love and understanding which makes us believe
that there is evil all around us.
But evil is necessary.
Without evil, free will is impossible and without free will there can be no
growth, no forward movement, no chance for us to become humans. It
is for evil only that we to stand in the face of evil and injustice and use our
free will to defeat them. If there was no evil, where would we use this potent
force?
Free will leads to
enquiry and enquiry leads to realisation which in turn leads to changing what
is not acceptable. Growth is possible only when there is scope for doing
differently and freedom for not to tread the troden path.
Without evil, virtue
cannot be known. Bad and good coexist. The progression has to be from bad to
good, good to better and better to best. It is evil that makes this possible.
If there was no evil, this progression wouldn't be possible.
If we look around, we see
growth, which is also called change. We have come a long way from being hunters
to social animals who can live together, help each other. This happened because
of free will to suppress evil.
Fortunately Evil can be
defeated. This is pissible because of Love. Love is predominantly universal in
all living beings, including the evil ones. There is no life without
Love. Love will always overcome evil, however all powerful it may seem to
be.
So don't grudge evil or
evil people. They need help, not condemnation. It is because of them that
we can use our free will and help them thereby helping ourselves. We have
to be thankful that evil lives in us, with us, around us to encourage and
motivate us to rise to the higher realms of humanity.
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