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Action: Right or Wrong| Good or Evil

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When every man starts following the spiritual path or suffers anything in life, one question arises: Is it wrong or right? Am I following the path of righteousness? These questions are natural. But, requires deep contemplation. The answer to these questions will decide your future actions. 

ACTION

The Universe is in the form of vibrations if you study quantum physics. So, one thing to keep in mind is that your every action or inaction counts. Your action or where you did not act is going to impact your surroundings. An action is just like throwing a stone in water. Stone creates ripples in water. These ripples return back. Same way your action returns back and is very dependent on the intensity of your action. That's why it is said your actions return to you. That's also why it is said that you should not take action against anyone else which you cannot bear for yourself. 

GOOD or BAD

Let's start with the most basic statement: No action is right or wrong in this Universe.  The time and situation make things right or wrong; good or evil for you. So always look around your situation and time to determine the righteousness of your actions. This shows that you should not decide about the righteousness or evilness of any action without looking time and situations in which that action was performed. This is very important in this digital era where you just see action and not the time and situation behind it. 

Any action which impacts our lives badly is bad and which impacts goodly is good. This is the most basic statement. Good or Bad is at two levels- individual and society. Any action which is good for an individual may be bad for society if it affects society badly. This implies that righteousness or evilness is a subjective topic, not an objective one. [Justice may be injustice for someone]

Lord Rama killed Ravana. We Indians celebrate this as the victory of righteousness over evilness. Some interpret it wrongly. They interpret it in the way that righteousness will always prevail over evilness. Rather, the celebration of Vijayadashmi gives us a message of what is right or wrong in Indian culture. [For that you need to read Ramayan with this knowledge]. The celebration is to bring that righteousness into our lives. 

If Rama would not have been stronger than Ravana then he would not have won from him. So, Ramayan nowhere gives the message that righteousness always wins over evilness. If it had been so, then Ravana would not have killed anyone or we would not be living in the yug of Kali. What it implies is that a win of righteousness over evilness is always desired. So, you need to be strong for this. 


CONCLUSION

Perform your action (even inaction) by looking around your time and situation, not looking at some principles whose context you do not know.  


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