Ajaya: Duryodhana's Mahabharata - Collector's Edition

by Anand Neelakantan

If you are omniscient, you should know what adharma is. If you are omnipresent, why take birth at all or come to the world, when you yourself are the world? If you are omnipotent, why create evil at all? Why create adharma if you have the power of creation and destruction? If adharma is a mistake, then you are not omnipotent or omniscient. But if you created adharma by design, then you are not the compassionate Supreme Soul, having known the suffering that would ensue. It reeks of sadism. If adharma arose on its own and you have to fight to vanquish it, you are not omnipotent but just like any of us lesser mortals. Krishna, if you are the Supreme Essence of the world, and adharma exists in it, it merely shows that the world that is you, is imperfect. If the world is imperfect, then so are you.”