Guest guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Evil thoughts, looked at materially, are the disease bacilli. Each thought is a little hammer blow on the lump of iron which our bodies are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be. We are heirs to all the good thoughts of the universe, if we open ourselves to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Has Swamiji or any other branch of philosophy or philosopher defined " Good " and defined " Evil " in a way that we can relate to? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Evil thoughts, looked at materially, are the disease bacilli. Each thought is a little hammer blow on the lump of iron which our bodies are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be. We are heirs to all the good thoughts of the universe, if we open ourselves to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 jairam seshadri [jairamseshadri] Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:53 AM Ramakrishna RE: [sri Ramakrishna] Vivekananda Mailing List-7/6/04 Has Swamiji or any other branch of philosophy or philosopher defined " Good " and defined " Evil " in a way that we can relate to? Namaste, Evil is anything which makes us ignorant of our own true nature. Good is anything which frees us from ignorance. Love, Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2004 Report Share Posted July 8, 2004 The Problem of Evil by Swami Prabhavavananda and Christopher Isherwood http://www.vedanta.com/getpage.cfm?file=what_is_evil.html Every religion or system of philosophy has to deal with the problem of evil - and unfortunately it is a problem which is usually explained away rather than explained. " Why, " it is asked, " does God permit evil, when He (or She) is all goodness? " One of two answers is usually given to this question by Western religious thought. Sometimes we are told that evil is educational and penal. God punishes us for our sins by visiting us with war, famine, earthquake, disaster and disease. He employs temptation (either directly or through the agency of the Devil) to test and strengthen the virtue of the good. This is the answer given by the Old Testament. It repels many people today and has become unfashionable-although, as we shall see in a moment, it contains a certain degree of truth, according to the philosophy of Vedanta. The other answer, now more generally accepted, is that evil does not exist at all. If we view Life sub specie aeternitatis we shall know that evil has no reality; that it is simply a misreading of good. Vedanta philosophy disagrees with both these answers-with the second even more radically than with the first. On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:53:26 -0400, jairam seshadri <jairamseshadri wrote: > Has Swamiji or any other branch of philosophy or philosopher defined " Good " > and defined " Evil " in a way that we can relate to? > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > Evil thoughts, looked at materially, are the disease bacilli. Each > thought is a little hammer blow on the lump of iron which our bodies > are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be. We are heirs to all > the good thoughts of the universe, if we open ourselves to them. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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