Gurunathar’s Divine Message Moolam Star 16-05-2006
I would like to explain something: “Why has the Supreme God who has been praised as the One capable of creating all goodness with all good intention also created evil?” I would like to reply, “Without evil how would you recognize or understand the concept of goodness? It is only after you have been scorched by the sun that you appreciate the coolness of shade. If I give you a coin you will see it has two sides. This is only natural. If there is good, there must also be evil. If there is no bad person, whom will you call good? Only when a person has suffered severe body pain will he realize the happiness of being without it. This is God’s wish. So if there is good there will be evil. Man’s superior intelligence helps him to discriminate and move away from evil. We move away from anything and refrain from any action that causes us unhappiness.
For example, we never consciously put our hand into fire. Thus we choose to avoid such evils. However, there are some pleasures or things that we think bring us happiness which if we introspect about, ultimately brings us unhappiness. So these are also to be avoided. As we become free of these, step by step we shall make good progress in life.
{Translation of Gurunathar’s Divine message given to and read by Guruji Shri.K.V.Narayanan}