Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who in most religions is the central embodiment of evil. Various cultures have a different meaning of a devil and a different way of perceiving the satan. In the Indian culture, the word “rakshas” means evil and demonic, in Zoroastrianism, there is a concept of one supreme God and the evil is believed to be a negative cosmic force. Christianity views Satan as an angel cast from heaven by God, for being prideful and deceitful.
God, on the other hand, is portrayed to be peaceful and an embodiment of pure and good thoughts. God has several characteristics in every culture like that of being the sole creator, being omnipresent, omnipotence, and simple.
In our discussion about John Milton’s Paradise Lost, we brush through the fact that Milton portrays Satan as a sensible force and God to be the unreasonable power. Though the twist seems interesting and the poem chooses to catch a different path, I believe that every good thing has a reason and so does the evil. Speaking from the Indian context, every single Indian mythology and epic speaks about God taking a form of a regular human and preaching good and killing bad omens.
The point that I am trying to make here is that no matter how we name God and Satan, or even choose to interchange the names for Satan to be good and God to be evil, there will always be one truth, there will always be one person who will have to ward off the bad and there will always be one and only one righteous path in this world to every single problem.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna, the incarnated form of Lord Vishnu, came to this world for a reason. When evils and wrongdoings increased, God (or let’s say a positive force), came down to Earth for stopping these wrongdoings. In the Gita Upadesh (the teachings given by Lord Krishna), this positive force says, “For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the setting up of the law of righteousness, I come into being age after age.” From this, we realise that it is not God or Satan that justify things. It is the ultimate fact that there will always be a triumph of good over evil and there will always be just one truth for everything in this world and irrespective of how people wish to portray it, it will always remain the universal statement.
