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From where has evil come? Do you say that the mind is the source?

Then, what is it that transcends both, good and evil? How is evil to

be eliminated? . Swami alone can explain this with felicity, None

else can. Kindly enlighten us.

 

Evil is not related to the mind. Rather it stems from samskaras,

previous accomplishments.

 

The mind is full of thoughts. That is why it is said, sankalpavi

kalpatmakam manah, The mind is essentially determinations and

negations. Being hard like wax, the mind softens with a little heat.

In that state anything and everything sticks to it. When wax is

thrown into fire, it melts completely. Attachment and hatred stick to

the mind only when it is in the soft state. When the mind is melted

away, nothing sticks to it. Then how does the mind melt away

completely? Even as fire melts away wax completely, jnana, supreme

wisdom, melts away the mind..

 

Atma is beyond good and evil, and nothing can touch or injure it.

Being a witness, Atma transcends duality. Notice this little example.

The lotus flower blooms in water and mud. Without these, there is no

way it can exist. But, neither water nor mud sticks to the lotus. Mud

represents samskaras of past lives, and water, the fruits of present

actions: The flower of the soul is beyond past and present.

 

Desires which are bounded by time constitute nerpu (Telugu), skill or

craft, while Divinity mined from the recesses of the heart is kurpu

(Telugu), arrangement or synthesis. In other words, nerpu is

pravrtti, outward oriented, and kurpu is nivrtti, inward oriented. If

`nerpu' is a matter of the mind, ` kurpu ' is a matter of the heart.

A small example. For irrigating the fields, an etam or water-lift is

used. It bails out water. A long wooden beam is laid across a well

with a heavy stone tied at one end with a rope, and a bucket hanging

from the other end. When the bucket goes down deep into a well or a

canal, it gets filled with water. At that time, the heavy stone goes

up as in a seesaw or a balance. The stone represents desires, and

hence the heaviness. This is nerpu or previous accomplishment. But,

the bucket is not like that. It sinks deep into the well of the

heart, and fills itself with the water of divinity. This is kurpu .

Are there any games without a ground to play them in or a song

without a rhythm to it! The bird comes out of the egg, and the tree

from the seed . Likewise the nature of atma and humanness are

reciprocal, and supplement each other. Then, not taking note of evils

is the way to do away with them. Consider them illusions. That would

be fine.