The moment you say it is a manifestation and not real, there is no question of good and evil. But, functionally, they are there. It is like standing under the light– there is no shadow. Meaning the closer we are to the truth, there is no evil. The more you move away from the light, the further you move from direct light, you find your shadow coming into the picture. Therefore, what you call evil is nothing but your own shadow side. All that we talk about as evil is nothing but `good distorted’….distorted through your sense of finitude. Infinite awareness is manifesting as a finite human being and this finite being does not know that it is infinite. Therefore there is a conceptual self coming up which we explained in our earlier posts as ahamkara or ego-sense. This conceptual self suffers from a sense of finitude which it struggles to get rid of. As long as this struggle is within dharma it can lead to growth and can eventually understand the reality of what one is. If I feel the sense of finitude so much that I want to get things by hook or by crook then what we call adharma or modern literature calls evil, although I don’t like to use the word evil, is born. Therefore what we call evil is nothing but distorted good. According to Christian literature Satan is a fallen angel so he cannot be anti God. In fact in Indian literature there is no antithesis or opposite of Ishwara.
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