Its nice fight against the EVILs: *Think No Evil* *"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." *
*We have heard of this and seen pictures of the three monkeys.* *On a subtle level, think no evil… * *thoughts become words, and words become actions…* *repeated actions become habits…* *thus, on the phy* *sical level, you will do no evil…* *YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK ! * KR Definitely never be an EVIL person. What is evil? Since World War II, moral, political, and legal philosophers have become increasingly interested in the concept of evil. This interest has been partly motivated by ascriptions of ‘evil’ by laymen, social scientists, journalists, and politicians as they try to understand and respond to various atrocities and horrors, such as genocides, terrorist attacks, mass murders, and tortures and killing sprees by psychopathic serial killers. It seems that we cannot capture the moral significance of these actions and their perpetrators by calling them ‘wrong’ or ‘bad’ or even ‘very very wrong’ or ‘very very bad.’ We need the concept of evil. 2 To avoid confusion, it is important to note that there are at least two concepts of evil: a broad concept and a narrow concept. The broad concept picks out any bad state of affairs, wrongful action, or character flaw. The suffering of a toothache is evil in the broad sense as is a harmless lie. Evil in the broad sense has been divided into two categories: natural evil and moral evil. Natural evils are bad states of affairs which do not result from the intentions or negligence of moral agents. Hurricanes and toothaches are examples of natural evils. By contrast, moral evils do result from the intentions or negligence of moral agents. Murder and lying are examples of moral evils.Since the narrow concept of evil involves moral condemnation, it is appropriately ascribed only to moral agents and their actions. For example, if only human beings are moral agents, then only human beings can perform evil actions. Evil in this narrower sense is more often meant when the term ‘evil’ is used in contemporary moral, political, and legal contexts. 3 Some evil-skeptics believe that we should abandon the concept of evil because it is too harmful or dangerous to use (See e.g., Cole 2006, 21, and 2019; Held 2001, 107). No one can deny that the term ‘evil’ can be harmful or dangerous when it is misapplied, used perniciously, or used without sensitivity to complicated historical or political contexts. For instance, it is likely that by calling terrorists ‘evildoers’ and Iraq, Iran, and North Korea ‘the axis of evil’ former U.S. President George W. Bush made it more likely that suspected terrorists would be mistreated and less likely that there would be peaceful relations between the peoples and governments of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea and the peoples and government of the United States. But should we abandon the concept of evil because it leads to harm when it is misapplied or abused? 4 To determine whether evil is qualitatively distinct from mere wrongdoing we must first understand what it is for two concepts to be qualitatively distinct. According to some theorists, two concepts are qualitatively distinct if, and only if, all instantiations of the first concept share a property which no instantiation of the second concept shares . If so, evil and wrongdoing are non-quantitatively distinct by being quality of emphasis distinct. Most theorists writing about the concept of evil believe that evil actions must cause or allow significant harm to at least one victim. Assuming that harm is an essential component of evil, the question then becomes how much, or what type of, harm is required for evil? Examples of intolerable harms include severe physical or mental suffering as well as the deprivation of basics such as food, clean drinking water, and social contact Rather than offer a list of possible motivating states for evil action, it is thinkable, that to perform an evil action an agent must desire his victim’s significant harm (or states of affairs inconsistent with the absence of this harm) for an unworthy goal, where an unworthy goal is a goal which “if attained, would not make for a better state of affairs than if the harm was averted and the goal not attained” Thus the world viewed the evil in different perspectives, reducing the definition of EVIL, as that affected a person, to the level of tortures. 5 How evil entered , as west calle it as Satan entry? Diti (दिति).—A daughter of Dakṣa, and wife of Kaśyapa.1 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_1> Her sons generally known as Daityas. Mother of Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu.2 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_2> Mother of Dantavaktra by the sage's curse.3 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_3> Her sons Prahlāda and Hari were devotees of Hari.4 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_4> Always set her mind on truth;5 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_5> daughter Simhikā; 5 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_5> (Ādity, Vāyu-purāṇa). Finding her sons slain by Hari to help Indra, she became enraged, and asked her husband to bless her with a child to kill Indra. The unwilling husband offered it on condition of her observing certain vows for 100 years. So she observed them and Indra came to assist her. One day he found her sleeping in an unorthodox posture and entering her womb cut the embryo into seven and then into 49 pieces; but at her request he gave all of them the status of gods, known as Maruts.6 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_6> Impelled by passion and desire for children she approached her husband one evening for sexual intercourse. Kaśyapa said that it was the hour when Śivagaṇas moved about and for him, to offer the *śandhya*-prayer. But she persisted and gained her object. She however requested to be redeemed of the sin. Kaśyapa remarked that since she approached him at the wrong time, her sons would have paiśāca-character and would be killed by Hari. For her penitence she was blessed with a righteous child among her grandsons.7 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_7> Held the *tejas* in embryo for a hundred years when darkness enveloped all directions. The two door-keepers of Vaikuṇṭha cursed by seers for preventing them from having *darsan* of Hari were born as her two sons, when there were evil omens.8 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_8> Prayed for another son. This was Vajrānga who on his birth according to her orders bound Indra. The latter was released on the mediation of Brahmā and Kaśyapa.9 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_9> Mother of Daityas; a Mother Goddess to be worshipped in house and palace buildings10 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_10> Yoganidrā addressed as; 11 <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/diti#ref1_11> sons of, in the seventh *tala* or Pātālam. Thus certain actions entertain the evils even without our willpower, showing the world the tortures and hitler is no exception from the evil. 6 Hence we shall pray:1 Rig Veda 4.2.11 चित्तिमचित्तिं चिनवद्वि विद्वान्पृष्ठेव वीता वृजिना च मर्तान् । राये च नः स्वपत्याय देव दितिं च रास्वादितिमुरुष्य ॥ cittim acittiṃ cinavad vi vidvān pṛṣṭheva vītā vṛjinā ca martān | rāye ca naḥ svapatyāya deva ditiṃ ca rāsvāditim uruṣya || “May the wise Agni <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/agni#hinduism> discriminate between virtue and vice between (virtuous and wicked) men, as a (groom distinguishes between) the strong and weak backs (of horses); enrich us with wealth accompanied by virtuous offspring; be bountiful to the liberal giver; shun him who gives not.”Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya Cittim acittim cinavadvi vidvān <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vidvan#hinduism>, may the sage (Agni) distinguish that which is to be known, cittim jñātavyam puṇyam or virtue, and acittim acetanīyam not to be thought of, or pāpam sin; cittim and acittim are explained by jñānam and ajñānam, knowledge and ignorance; martān, mortals or men, has no epithets and are supplied: the comparison runs: pṛṣṭheva vitā vṛjinā ca, like backs bright, (kāntāni) and ill-bearing (durvahāṇi); for the horses and the groom, (aśvapāla) KR IRS 22 6 23 On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 16:13, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> wrote: > *Think No Evil* > > *"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." * > > *We have heard of this and seen pictures of the three monkeys.* > > > *On a subtle level, think no evil… * > > *thoughts become words, and words become actions…* > > *repeated actions become habits…* > > *thus, on the phy* > > *sical level, you will do no evil…* > > > *YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK ! * > > > N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004 > > *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you > become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to > a goal, not to people or things "* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqN6%3DDkYiVgrBoxo-%2BQfvmjabt8T4DJTy3T8oJHW7WLgw%40mail.gmail.com.
