Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00476)

W. Dallas TenBroeck wrote:

> In regard specifically to the question of our ability or inability to chose
> the right thing, or to choose "between two evils" implies that we,
> interiorly, know what the RIGHT THING IS.  Or, we would not have a sense of
> a "bad" thing
>
> Now I may be in error in offering this, and some aspects of karmic action
> and reaction are not considered here -- as for instance the effect on our
> "skandhas" (or little lives) when we make bad decisions -- and how they
> become the "carriers" of our "bad" karma.
>
> But there is food for much consideration here, I think.

	First of all, thank you for understanding the point I have been trying
to bring out.

	Now to the point: For whatever reason, we can end up in a situation
where all the possible choices, including inaction, are the "wrong
thing". The major lesson of the Bhagavad Gita is that, even if all
actions involve doing the "wrong thing", inaction is also a choice, and
may be one of the worst ones.

	Bart Lidofsky