Posted on: 04 Feb 2005
Doing good things is different and enjoying the results of good deeds is different. One can prepare sweets continuously but one cannot eat sweets continuously. The result of good deed is happiness. Continuous happiness will bore anybody like eating sweets continuously. The Lord never created anything without a good purpose. The whole creation of the Lord originally was very good because everything was created for a purpose and for the happiness of all the living beings. The bad was created by the Lord, only to give some breaks now and then in the continuous happiness. The Lord also comes down in human form, bored by the continuous bliss that He enjoys. The Veda says that He enjoys both the truth and false (Satcha Tyatcha Abhavat). The Gita also says that the Lord created Sattvam (good qualities) and also Rajas and Tamas (bad qualities). Whether the bad is created in the beginning or it is created after some time, does not matter. You could even say that God created the bad in the beginning itself assuming that the continuous pleasure would be boring, or you can say that God has created bad when the people got bored with the happpiness. There is no difference between these two statements because God is beyond time. God created both good and bad qualities as said in the Gita (Yechaiva Sattvikaa Bhavaah Rajasaah Taamasaascha Ye). The Lord is beyond good and bad as said in the Gita (Gunaateethah Sa Utchyate). He is the Creator of day and night, summer and winter etc; but the human being is not beyond qualities because He is made of the very qualities, good or bad. The Lord, when He comes in human form or remains as Ishwara, is like a person who is wearing white or black shirt but the soul is the very black or white shirt as said in the Gita (Naanyam Gunebhyah Kartaaram). Therefore the Lord is untouched by the good or bad qualities. But the individual human being is like the cotton shirt, which is colored and it is very difficult to remove the color from the cotton threads.