Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh.
Why does evil exist?
This is a great question,
because everybody goes through this.
But for us, as a Sikh,
we don't have this idea of a devil and that created evil.
For us, it's our lust, anger, pride, greed and attachment.
These things are our inner demons and they keep us away from Vaheguru.
And if you look at all the things that we might call 'evil",
generally, they tend to come from these five things.
Somebody in some ways is doing the wrong things
because they're following these things and not Vaheguru.
So for us, Evil is basically the illusion.
If we choose to follow Vaheguru and the Creator,
and the teachings of our Guru, we will not be acting an evil way,
and will experience the Creator.
If we choose to follow the illusion
which isn't true, which isn't permanent and it's going to fade away,
then at that point, we'll end up going down the evil path.
*Whatever you call that evil*.
Why did Vaheguru create this illusion?
But we follow these five things as real, more real than our Creator.
That's a good question, but we don't know the answer to that.
The creator makes this 'Rachna' - this world.
We are basically plays within that play.
Now in this case, Vaheguru is supremely powerful, just and loving.
So we don't understand the big picture.
However, we can trust that Vaheguru is very loving,
because we can experience that Vaheguru and experience that love.
So this is nothing bad that's happening to us.
It's nothing bad as imposed upon us.
We are part of that One,
we chose this game ourselves.
As a One, we chose to spread into many
and those many are lost and confused about who they are
and then they realize who they are.
We're part of that One.
Also since Vaheguru created this illusion,
he also sends teachers to teach us, how to get out of that illusion.
In every country and every age,
there has been people that have come up and given the same very simple truths that the Gurus did.
The wisdom within Sikhi is unique because it's all together.
But in every age Vaheguru has sent people that were enlightened.
The question was also asked is
Why are there some horrible evil people in this world?
How could a loving God make the world as it is?
Firstly, this question is a question that every religion faces,
and we should have some kind of perspective from the Gurus about this.
I would say that the first step we should do,
is try and experience that Vaheguru
because the doubt will not go away by answering this question.
The doubt would go away by experiencing the divine
and then we'll know that Vaheguru is real.
Now when we know that Vaheguru is real,
then we look at the same thing and say that,
that action happened because
the person who did that was acting in an unenlightened manner.
The person let's say for example who had died, was murdered
that person that soul cannot get murdered
it has to come back.
And also, because we understand reincarnation is true
then Justice also plays out.
The 'law of Karma' means that,
that person does something horrible then later on,
something happens to them to level that out,
and the play is not made by us.
The play made is made by Vaheguru and justice is served by Vaheguru.
But also, we understand that this is all a part of a journey.
This is journey the Creator made for us to all to become enlightened.
Right now, we're in a situation where
most of the people on the earth are unenlightened
and are not acting in line with enlightened thought and enlightened spirituality.
But in time everybody will become enlightened.
It's a cycle,
and so we believe that at the moment we're in Kalyug,
and then at some point it will be Satyug.
Our job as a Sikh is to basically bring about that Satyug,
is to enlighten people and that stuff won't happen anymore.
But for that to happen,
each of us needs to be enlightened first
So if you want to go and solve that problem,
experience the Creator.
Experience how great the Creator is,
first,
and then you will be able to go and tell the people,
"you know this stuff is true."
I'm not lying.
I know, and let me show you how..
Even knowing that this thing happened because it was God's will,
it doesn't make us then say,
"Oh, I don't need to help that person."
You know that it's not that Compassionate way of behaving.
if you want to live in a God orientate way,
in a Vaheguru orientated way,
Compassion is very key.
While Guru tells us that righteousness is born from compassion.
So basically we have to be compassionate
and opening up that 'Daeaaa' inside our heart
is a fundamental step towards justice.
So you know where we have to behave towards a person
who had bad happened to them is, to be compassionate and help that person.
But also to the person who did bad,
we have a job there as well - to deliver justice
and to have society which delivers justice to that person
without being scared and thinking,
"Oh, we're not God. God will give justice. We don't have to do anything to the person."
That's kind of like a defeatist way of looking at the world.
This is our job upon the world to establish justice.
I'm sure my loads of mistakes to answer that question.
Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh.