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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
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of Sacrifice is performed; and he ceases to exist whun man denies Goodness or Sacrifice in the world.
MAHAVIR-Do you imply that, if there is God, there is
no evil, no sorrow, no suffering in the world ?
KRISHNA-I have explained to you that the whole
universe, including Man, is moved to action by a force which, for the moment, is essentially good. But the whole universe is subject to the Law of Change, and that alters it to something different,--something less good than before, necessitating a new action to set it right. It is this that is called evil. All persons are not at the same stage of evolution; and when individual good conflicts wholly with the good of society or the race, it is called evil; when it does so only in part, it is partly good and partly evil; and when it is in harmony with all, it is called, unreservedly good. The relation between Good and Evil corresponds to that between Light and Darkness in the world. There is nothing like a total absence of light, and darkness is but a form of light itself. Even so are Good and Evil in the world. And when what is good changes to evil, there arises the necessity of action to change it to good again. That is the basis of belief in the divinity of Man and the existence of God.
