All by the will of God

In the world where we live it is the pairs of opposites that determine and rule. Good and evil, ugly and beautiful, sin and virtue, joy and sorrow, gain and loss, victory and defeat. And the human mind invariably gets affected by these opposites. It praises and appreciates the good or some thing it likes and it criticises and hates the evil or some thing it dislikes.

And these opposite feelings for the good and evil affect us in a negative way. It makes the mind pine and crave for the good or that it likes. And when the craving is not satisfied it leads to frustration. Lord Krishna suggests a way out when he says that by regarding alike all opposites one should join the battle of life. Thus one incurs no sin.

Sin?

Is it a sin to recognise the opposites and regard a thing as good and some thing else as evil?

Sure seems like it, for in the Holy Scripture Guru Granth Sahib it is said –

Hukame andar har koi, Bahar Hukam Na Koi

Everything in the world is happening by the will of God and nothing is outside his will. That means very clearly that everything is happening by the will of God. And if it is so what right do we have to judge anything or anyone? If it is so then it means by regarding some thing as evil we are criticising the will of God by which everything is happening here.

Some might question how evil can happen by the will of God. Well is it not said that even a leaf cannot move without God’s will? Then can so many so-called evil things happen without his will?

In fact there is nothing good or evil as such. It is only due to individual conditioning of mind that one regards some things as good and some others as evil. According to Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita thinking in terms of good and evil leads to attachment to the good and evil and ultimately to death. But when one is free of attachment to the opposites then one is protected even from the greatest fear, that is, death. So Lord Krishna advises the beings to regard all happenings as alike and not be moved by them.

But how can this state of mind be achieved? Normally, as soon as we see something wrong happening in the world we start protesting against it or criticising it. Or we form thoughts of abhorrence.

How can this be prevented and how can one attain a non-judgmental state of mind?

For this Lord Krishna suggests a very wonderful and powerful practice, which he calls the Supreme Secret. The essence of this practice is to consider all actions as those of God or by the will of God and not of individual beings. When this happens the mind does not get attached to the nature of the action or its goodness or badness.

This results in supreme peace, happiness and freedom from worries, diseases and even old age and death. To know more about this practice read the book You Are God written by Shashi Verma or log on to www.highestwisdom.com