Good and Evil.

Light and dark. What is it? Dark is the absence of light. Where there is no light there is dark. It’s as simple as that. When we leave this mortal world we enter the world of light. In that world there is no dark. Relating that to what we take with us when we go we can therefore say that we can only take what we have – only the positive things we have; the attitudes and virtues that we have accumulated whilst living our lives on this mortal plain. Think of it this way, if we go and visit someone and we have a lot of wealth and we take that wealth with us, then we can show what we have. It is a tangible thing. But if we go to visit someone and show them all the ‘nothing’ or poverty we have then we have got nothing to show them. You cant say look at all this nothing I have – there isn’t anything to see. So it is the same when we leave this world we can only take what we have learnt and accumulated through good virtues and qualities. So that also means that there is no badness or harm that can come to us from the next world because there is nothing negative or bad there. So ghosts and evil spirits and all those things that many people fear for and pray against is just not a reality – they don’t exist. They cant exist.

The real pain and loss is to live your life in ignorance of spiritual things. That is the hell that is talked of in all the spiritual books.

“True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self.”

(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 156)

That ‘self’ is our soul, its our true identity. We must nurture our spiritual side, let it grow and develop into something glorious. So how do we do it? Since our creator loves us and has only our best interests at heart, it follows that we should listen read and study what the Divine teachers have given us. Only then can we be assured that the paths we are trying to tread are indeed the right paths. The latest messenger has given advice and instruction for every aspect of our lives today and it is current with todays world. It follows therefore to hearken to His teachings, after all it is a wisdom that far exceeds anything that we may be able to create. When you accept this, your life becomes so much easier and much more beautiful and fulfilling, it gives you wings to soar with, it allows you to enjoy this life to its fullest, it gives you an appreciation of things like you could have never imagined possible before, and most of all it gives you a peace of mind, knowing that you are trying to live a life which is true to yourself.

“O FRIEND!

In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold. Treasure the companionship of the righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly.

O SON OF JUSTICE!

Whither can a lover go but to the land of his beloved? and what seeker findeth rest away from his heart's desire? To the true lover reunion is life, and separation is death. His breast is void of patience and his heart hath no peace. A myriad lives he would forsake to hasten to the abode of his beloved.”

(Baha'u'llah, Hidden Words)