What is the purpose of Evil?

What is the purpose of Evil?

I got a different perspective of what is the purpose of Evil, it balances the Good. 

I love the statement because I believe there are no different Good/Evil. As per Advaita Philosophy, Good & Evil are same. They are only distinctive to people who does not understand them being part of great god. We consider good & evil as separate because we only observe it separately.

What are your views?

Comments

  1. GopalaKrishna pvDecember 4, 2013 at 6:37 AM

    good and evil are the two faces of the same coin. when we believe that god is every where ; and he is ready to destroy evil only on request from the aggreived on prayer. ; mostly god is also partial to those who pray.

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  2. Anantha NarayananDecember 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM

    but if you consider too much of good is also evil, I was trying to understand it from perspective of advaita; not from the point of view of god/demons...

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  3. GopalaKrishna pvDecember 5, 2013 at 4:06 AM

    the purpose of evil is to create some sort of untoward incident and make one to open eyes, to correct oneself it is a process never ending

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  4. Sunil YadavDecember 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    I go with the Advaita philosophy here.
    Good and Evil are all the creations of mind.. 
    Maya creates this duality so that we can 'experience' the world whereas she herself is neutral.
    I see evil as a phase of my 'created' reality which pushes me to come out of one cycle which i have been following. When we keep getting goodies we never tend to abandon a process/cycle. Encounter with evil makes us change our path.

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  5. Krishnamurthi CGJanuary 15, 2014 at 9:10 AM

    In our dharma there is nothing called as Evil - it the avidyaa (ignorance) is the biggest evil - Bhagavadgita also says one is one's own friend or enemy - in purport we can say that the one who is in avidyaa is his perpetual enemy - how  - when such a person harms others he is actually inflicting pain unto himself either directly or indirectly - thus his own avidyaa is cause of his suffering - all Raakshasas were in Avidyaa - they tried to achieve immortality of body - all living beings have to die ("jaatasya hi druvo mrutyuh" - Geeta) - no escape - this vidyaa they didn't understand and they went on for many years in pain and sufferring to get immortality of body - still none got - where as people like Prahlada, Markandeya got immortality without much pain and sufferring  - immortality not that of body. As long as this avidyaa remains the evil tendencies also remain - it varies only degree from person to person !

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  6. GopalaKrishna pvJanuary 16, 2014 at 5:55 AM

    good and evil are two distinct thoughts. it is expounded in geetha also. paramatma will fight for good and to dislodge evil.

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  7. Anantha NarayananJanuary 16, 2014 at 6:47 AM

    If "jaatasya hi druvo mrutyuh" (there is no escape from death) how can we explain chiranjeevi. Like Lord Anjaneya?

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  8. GopalaKrishna pvJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:46 AM

    the body is born and so death is certain. .,but not for aatma. There are certain aatmaas who live long in the hearts of every human. Such aatmaas are , I feel called chiranjeevis

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  9. Krishnamurthi CGJanuary 18, 2014 at 8:04 PM

    chiram jeevi - means long liver. Chiram means long (nitya means always) so they live to see a yuga or a chatur yuga not a yugandaram (next cycle of 4 yugas).

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