Question From My Cousin

[jagsinrags]

Satsriakal,

I am posting this qus on behalf of my cousin

"If BAD DOES NOT PREVAIL WHAT GOOD IT IS TO BE GOOD"

Please help to resolve.

Guru Fateh

[KEERPA]

If BAD DOES NOT PREVAIL WHAT GOOD IT IS TO BE GOOD"

Youll either be one that is bad and doesnt prevail or you will be good and "hopefully" prevail.

If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail.

[Nehmat]

Looks like your cousin likes to compare and contrast a lot...

Thats okay to do that...

But ask her/him: "Do you have to be bad to see if there is any goodness?...Wouldn't there be peace if there is no bad-ness around?"

Would she/he prefer: Kaam over a peaceful gristhi life, Krodh over being peaceful, Greed over satisfaction of life, Attachment over Bondage which gives sorrow at the end, Ego over being humble...

If she/he picks the negative answer then you can do one thing: just stay quiet because by an argument with a manmukh you become a fool yourself...

Just tell them that they know better and this way your cousin will feel pleased that they were right and you knew nothing...and this way your soul will be at ease by knowing that your cousin is a fool and you must do ardaas for them and this way god will be pleased with you...

Easy eh?

[Saahiba]

Gurfatehji,

The so called confusion seems to be for the sake of it. The choices are very clear :

1. Be good and prevail

2. Be bad and perish

[Akaali]

If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail.

I like that.

[Dilrubarb]

Greetings ...

"If BAD DOES NOT PREVAIL WHAT GOOD IT IS TO BE GOOD"

i am interpreting your question as follows:

if bad does not prevail ... with the kirpa of www.dictionary.com i have found the following meaning to prevail ... to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally.

then what good is it to be good ... im interpreting this as what is to be gained by being good, or whats the point of being good

so collectively i interpret your question as ... if 'badness' * is not widespread or exist in the forground what is to be gained by being good, because goodness must by default be existing in more abundance if bad never prevails.

Now, the good to be gotten out of being good is that badness itself doesnt prevail, if there was no goodness bad would prevail

In Kaljug badness is prevailing so there is good to be gained by being good !

i hope this is a sufficient answer

regards

Dilrubarb !

P.S * please forgive the word badness !

[Papi]

What is darkness? It's just absence of light. In the same why, "badness" is just absence of "goodness", nothing more.

[Guru_Da_Chella]

we shouldn't look a bad people to measue how good we behave. we should behave good for our honour and dignity, and not just try to behave more good than others.

[mandeepraina]

Gurfatehji,

The so called confusion seems to be for the sake of it. The choices are very clear :

1. Be good and prevail

2. Be bad and perish

great

[SunSingh]

if you do no bad, but also do not try to make yourself more good, you will eventually slide towards bad. character will erode over time. kaljug pulls heavily at all of us, those who do not actively try to make themselves more good will slowly slide to become more bad.