devotee
06 February 2009, 05:07 AM
Right from our childhood, we are told what is good & what is bad & we are also told to watch our steps to ensure we must do what is good & must not do what is bad.
If garbage bin filled with filth was bad, then why dogs, pigs & flies like it so much ?
Is pain bad ? If pain were not there, could we know when we would cut ourselves ... & if pain were not there, why would we try to remove the malady ? Isn't it true that Pain is one of the best teachers ?
Is light good ? Then why does it kill the bacteria or scare cockroaches away ?
Is telling a lie bad ? Shall we tell the Truth to killer to help him find his victim ?
Is life good ? How do we know for certainty that life is good when we don't know what lies before or after the event we know as "life" ?
Is eating meat bad ? Then what would happen to millions of people who survive on meat because there is not much vegetation around them to depend upon ? ... and what would happen to carnivorous animals ?
So on & so forth ...
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Can we say that :
Good & Bad are just mental concepts which have only relative meanings within a given environment / a set of parameters ... they don't have any absolute meaning. ... and that it is all in our mind.
If garbage bin filled with filth was bad, then why dogs, pigs & flies like it so much ?
Is pain bad ? If pain were not there, could we know when we would cut ourselves ... & if pain were not there, why would we try to remove the malady ? Isn't it true that Pain is one of the best teachers ?
Is light good ? Then why does it kill the bacteria or scare cockroaches away ?
Is telling a lie bad ? Shall we tell the Truth to killer to help him find his victim ?
Is life good ? How do we know for certainty that life is good when we don't know what lies before or after the event we know as "life" ?
Is eating meat bad ? Then what would happen to millions of people who survive on meat because there is not much vegetation around them to depend upon ? ... and what would happen to carnivorous animals ?
So on & so forth ...
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Can we say that :
Good & Bad are just mental concepts which have only relative meanings within a given environment / a set of parameters ... they don't have any absolute meaning. ... and that it is all in our mind.