Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky... oops ...Nisargadatta

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Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather

than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will

be treated medically, as an unsound mind and body. (512)

Pain and pleasure, good and bad, right and wrong: these are relative terms

and must not be taken absolutely. They are limited and temporary. (264)

There is no evil, there is no suffering; the joy of living is paramount.

Look, how everything clings to life, how dear the existence is. (384)

There is no good and no evil. In every concrete situation, there is only

the necessary and the unnecessary. The needful is right, the needless is

wrong. In my world, even what you call evil is the servant of the good and

therefore necessary. It is like boils and fever that clear the body of

impurities. Disease is painful, even dangerous, but if dealt with rightly,

it heals. In some cases death is the best cure. (283-4)

 

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