What is the most dangerous?

Yesterday I went to an Indian temple in Harvard Estate near Gurun and started a new chapter in my life with the first lesson on spiritual therapy.

I was prepared with all the necessary equipment. However, as it was my first day in this class I went early and it was a fairly long wait for the next few students to turn up. By the time they did it was already nine-thirty at night with the surroundings in deep darkness as the temple was in the middle of an oil palm estate.

The master whom we called 'Bapa' first questioned each of us regarding the reasons we were there for such a spiritual therapy. After going through the reasons he told us to be earnest in our study of what is to be us. That we must be confident of ourselves and our desire to learn, that as we learn we must have the confidence that whatever power that we may achieve does not depend any other person but ourselves for the power lies in us. Nobody can help us if we do not have the confidence of achieving what we are set to learn.

Henceforth he told me something which struck me as a universal truth, that nothing in this world is evil but the evil of humans. No spirit or devil will do any wrong or harm except that which a human gets it to do.

No spirit would for example possess a person and cause him harm except when another him had ordered it to do. So, it is merely obeying the evil desires of some evil human. Therefore, do not hurt or harm it unless circumstances force you to it.

At this, I thought of all the weapons of destruction that we have in this world and how all those weapons does no harm, maybe ensure our safety unless someone misuse them.

Take the terrorists in our world. Most of those suicide bombers would not have wanted to die unless they have been brain-washed into believing the glory that they would achieve in doing so. There would have been no gory mass of dead bodies killed by bombs had not some evil mind of man used some humans to perform those destructive deeds.

It was man and the craze for power and wealth that caused all that we abhor. It is the evil in man that caused the world so much misery but so often we blame all those wrongs on the innocent spirits, innocent people and things that have been used by such evil people.

So, if those people could think right, evil can be avoided but that is the most difficult task of all. It is humans who are the most dangerous on this earth.