God does not behave like a socialist or egalitarian.. Each minor speck created by him is unique. In addition, Nano and sub Nano physics and optics would prove that no two things are similar. Moreover, there is no reason to believe that everything created by god should be equally good and equally useful. Good and bad, both are His creations. The people who appreciate and enjoy better creations would praise them and they will remark or react negatively about things that are bad or inconvenient. That is natural human tendency.
However much we would like to canvas the ideas about everything being good, and god being ever benevolent, we have no convincing proof to fortify that idea..
The presumption of innate benevolence of the Supreme One seems to be a lifesaving, confidence trick adopted by us..
God creates everything, even the virus causing AIDS. At least we believe so. That does not anyway make it mandatory that we should like or tolerate such things too.
Comparison and evaluation of relative merits of object and
issues is a very natural process.
By no logic or poetics, we can ever place a hollow bamboo
piece on an equal footing with a piece of sandalwood.
Normally we rub a piece of Sandalwood to get sandal paste.
But a bamboo stick can give a flute, and it can be used to make a baton or
lathi which can break the skull of a fellow too.
Therefore, by any
standards, the bamboo does not compare positively with sandalwood.
Moreover, when a poet attempts to make comparisons, he just
compares only the overwhelmingly superior merits. That need not imply that the
lesser object has completely negative value or nil value.
Even Rama and Krishna had their shortcomings, and Ravana and
Kamsa had some positive traits. Anyway
as a balancing act, we praise Rama and Krishna and condemn Ravana and Kamsa.
That is quite natural.
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