“There are always two forces warring against each other within us”
Is this Good VS. Bad? Is this Ego and Id? Is this Satan VS. God?
So much has been talked about in this principle. Although so much has been talked about, is there something that could truly give maximal understanding to Yogananda’s statement that two forces are waggering war within us?
The necessisity to understand that Source or GOD (Allah/Tao/YHWH/Godhead) is your higher self also teaches that things like MAterialism, Habits, Seven deadly sins or even Satan have less truth than the providence that there is a balance between Yin and Yang. This duality or dicotomy is the essence of not just male and female or Good versus Evil (Satan Vs. God) it is the discriminating faculty of right versus wrong.
At times there is need to kill. At times there is need to not kill. Could all killing be labeled as evil? Can not killing in necessity or in protective need be considered good?
It is this right versus wrong or discriminating of yes vs. no that is the true sense of what two forces are working within Man at all times.
What makes something karmic is not a sense of evil or not evil. Karma is both good karma and bad karma. Karma is karma. Just as karma is not evil or good, right versus wrong is only a choice and GOD which is beyond dualities is not magically all Good.
What may seem good to one person is far from being good or Godly to another. While this may be new, fire and brimestone or even “Satanic” heresay the reality is all aspects of Source are based on four characteristics (Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotency, and Omnitemporal). It is these four characteristics that make any individual who has developed spirituality to that level to be considered one with GOD.
Could Krishna, Jesus or Buddha be any less Godly should they have killed someone that tried attacking them? While Jesus choose to allow himself to become martyred would people think of him differently if he choose to have gotten out or while getting out and breaking free punch a man who happened to die.
While it seems bizzare, godliness is dependant on more than Good versus Evil. As Source or Consciousness knowns perfection (both evil and good) it is this state of perfection than godliness or those who have become One with Source through their perfection and attainment of (omnipotency, omnipresence, omnitemporal and omniscience) are not doing non evil or pure good, what they are doing is acting in accordance with perfection.
In this way do not question a god or decide that something a Source developed God said, did or tried was not good or right. Working as consciousness and perfection what may have been right for the situation may have been an act which some or even many could consider evil.
Does this seem fair? Does Source or God mean anything less than Creator?
