Question 157: About fighting against evil
Posted on: April 20, 2019
Question 157: In Oneness, do we fight against evil?
Indirectly we do because as we move towards realizing our oneness with all life, we make it more difficult for evil to manifest on earth. However, we do not directly fight against evil or evil powers since that would involve us in a dualistic struggle that only gives evil powers more authority and energy. They enjoy the battle. It’s like wrestling with a pig in the mud. You just get dirty and wet while the pig is in its natural element and enjoys the whole thing. You may wind up hog-tying the pig and declaring a victory, but then you have to clean yourself up and wait until the next pig challenges you.
Do we walk away from the challenges from the evil powers? This is where Jesus’ teachings on turning the other cheek come into play. We will never defeat evil powers or people by engaging them in a battle. Instead we will offer love and compassion and try to understand why they are so fearful, why they are attacking, and how can we help them get what they want in a peaceful, win-win way. We will also remove the label of evil and call it ignorance, which some people say is the only real sin.
Sometimes this strategy may work immediately on some attackers as they may have a conscience not too far below their hard exterior. Other times you may lose the battle, but not the war as your love and compassion will always come back to you. The attacker is in the school of hard knocks, and whatever he or she sends out will always come back to him or her, sooner or later.
In order to retain our inner peace, it is necessary to overcome or restrain our own egotistical desires to fight back and teach the attacker a lesson he will never forget. And he never will because he will want to get revenge. The cycles of revenge may continue for centuries if it has become part of the tribal, ethnic, or national identity. Each side thinking, they are in the right and justified in their actions.
The whole problem of evil is too big for any of us to take on by ourselves. We need to understand that negative energy fields have been built up over the centuries by mankind’s wars, cruelties, and abuses of humans, animals, and the environment. We can do our best to purify ourselves and not contribute any hatred, abuse, or negativity to the world, but that will not be enough. This is where we need to have the faith to call on the spiritual powers of angels, ascended masters such as Jesus, Krishna, and Buddha, and our Creator God to send spiritual light into the problem areas of the world.
Since we have free will God does not force any solutions on us, but with our free will we can ask for more guidance, more wisdom, more love, and more understanding. This is what prayer is. In true prayer we surrender our egos and recognize God as the One Divine Spirit that we all share in. True prayer is talking and listening to God, maybe wordlessly. The more we are in communion with God the more community we have. Our community connected with our earth numbers in the trillions at least, and our universal community is infinite. That is a lot of spiritual help to call upon. When we abolish thoughts of separation and loneliness, we enter into the magnificence of unconditional love and joy.
The search for power begins when we’re quite young. As children, we’re taught that the power of good triumphs over the power of evil. But as we get older, we realize that nothing is ever that simple. Traces of evil always remain. – Mary Alice Young
Evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. – James Allen
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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