Moral life -6

 

No Satan for wrong deeds

 

Interestingly comparing the philosophy of Hindu race with other parts of the world, we found no trace of the concept of good and evil struggling to overpower. The Hindus had never maintained the work of evil for wrong deeds. There is no evil for original Hindu religion that lures the Adam and Eve to do something wrong and against the divine because good or bad is the outcome of one’s own action. In Christianity and also in Islam and even in other religions, fight between divine and devil still continues and the main work of devil is to work against the divinity and the divine power works to bring the man again on right path. The fight between these two positive and negative powers remained working since the episode of Satan.

 

But for Hindus there is no evil, even the Ravana- the villain in the Ramayana epic was not an evil power. The Ravana was praised as the wise man and a pundit who knows even more than any other seer. Even the epic describes that the Hero of the Ramayana, Lord Rama asked his younger brother Laxman to take a lesson of life from Ravana.

 

The epic narrated the story with the moral of dharma and adharma (right and wrong) and also a struggle between two civilizations namely Aryans and non-Aryans on same land. The epic never talked about the evil power working against the divine setup. Even today Hindus every year burn the effigy of Ravana with the massage that good things overcome wrong things. And with the influence of other religions, story tellers narrates that Ravana was an evil and Rama was a divine incarnated on this earth to overcome the devils.

 

And similarly in another epic, Mahabharata, the struggle was between right and wrong conduct. There is not a single trace found in these two epics where the god comes out with miracles to spread the god’s kingdom.

 

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