The concept has already been discussed in this forum but I cannot find the thread. So I'm creating a new one. We'll make reference to the above masterful talk by Anandamoy: Your thoughts can change your life'.
Speaking about God and creation, how creation needs contrasts and so God had to create good and evil, light and darkness. We arrive at time 2:54.
"And in order to have this complex creation, he created these vast spheres of thought, different kinds of thought, just like radio waves. You have different vibrations, isn't it? Different frequencies"
Then he goes on reporting the words of SY in the Autobiography:
"And so, likewise, this is why Sri Yukteswar says: Thought is universally rooted, not individually. In other words, if we are thinking any kind of thought, we are not creating that thought. God has already created that."
The above words constitute a very deep metaphysical concept. Anandamoy uses that to affirm that the ultimate responsibility of our clinging even to bad thought and actions is God's because he created all types of thoughts, good and evil, all the vast spheres of thought that make up the repository of human conceivable insights and mistakes.
Ah yes yes thanks mccoy. It makes it easier to embrace it that way; that all the things we may disagree with are nevertheless part of Gods creation. Can we yet also assimilate why it must include such painful truths that put others in harms reach? This is not so easy but a concept or a vibration,if you will, of theodicy, asks such questions. We are told by the ancients and the yogis it is more important to rise above such dualities, nevertheless still being affected by them until we have the awesome perspective of for instance of Babaji who said that by only a little bit of this practice- Kriya yoga- we would be saved from dire fear and colossal suffering.
I will be listening to this soon but for now I also remember B. Anandamoy saying there will always be ‘rascals’ disrupting dharma even in the higher ages to come. Dharma being the perfect plan or thought sphere for us to embrace to tunnel us out of sane existence into and beyond thought; free of all duality. I ‘think’ Eric is touching on this concept also when he eludes to the fact he would rather avoid such clashes of thought or duality in our thought exchanges over politics.
Having such a detached attitude I saw in Anandamoy was part of what I see as a rather distant or seemingly uncompassionate outlook to the life struggles of others. None the less; embracing good and evil because they were both made by God.
‘I the Lord did all these things; I created light and darkness. I created good and evil.’ ~ Isaiah
