There’s one very famous allegory that I read in “A New Earth” book by Eckhart Tolle. A man meets with a severe accident and breaks his bones. He gets hospitalized. All his relatives and friends visit him that day and say “Oh, how bad that was! It shouldn’t have happened”. The next day the apartment where that man lives catches fire. Now again the same relatives and friends visit him in the hospital and say “Oh, how good that is! You are in a hospital!” The thing accident that got labeled as bad in the first day got relabeled as good the next day. Do these labels mean anything then? So one thing is clear that the study of God should be done keeping notions of goodness or badness out of scope.
Logically speaking, if there’s 1 there’s -1. If there’s a good, there has to be a bad! If something is positive, something has to be negative. There is true and there’s false. Both complete each other. In fact, without 1, there is no meaning to -1.
Let us assume that the world when it was born was full of goodness with no iota of badness at all. These days we can sense badness in this world too, can’t we? Then can we explain where that badness came from if initially there existed only goodness? Therefore logically speaking, this assumption is false. The same case, if we assume it otherwise. And hence we come to conclude that the world as it was born was Neutral! Either Equally good and Equally bad OR neither good nor bad! Nirguna, as we call it. Indeed! Like there are protons and there are electrons, but overall charge of an atom is neutral.
So Neutrality is the only assumption and hence a reality. If we are to appreciate goodness, we have to live with badness. So did God purposefully introduce badness while creating this world? What might His intentions be at the time of creating the world? They must be good! He must have wanted to create the world full of goodness. It’s perhaps just inadvertently that the badness might have got crept in as a side effectof creating something good. Similar to Newton’s third law which states that for every action, there’s equal and opposite reaction. That’s because possibly He tried to disturb the Neutrality (nirgunatvam) which is Supreme Reality and lies above all, well even above God!
Every invention or discovery has a good intention behind its genesis. Take e.g. a television, a mobile or an internet. These things, without doubt must have had good intentions behind their inventions. But we can see how they, when not used judiciously, act as despoilers of life as well. Does this mean only user is responsible for goodness or badness of a creation and not the creator himself? Of course, the answer should be an emphatic yes. What does this signify? Who are the usersof His world? It’s life forms in general and humans in particular, as humans are said to have highest degree of consciousness. So it’s entirely upon us, the humans, to actually render His creation good or bad, useful or useless.
But every life form is again a creation of Him! So is the Creator the only User?
Reinvent The Self! 
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