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by Rajendra Tapadia on Dec 11, 2007 08:35 PM Permalink
Hope God gives strength to the parents of Abhishek. It must be real tough on them to go through all this. May Abhishek's soul rest in peace and god punish the killers, so that no one will try to act in this heinous way.
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by Anshu S on Dec 11, 2007 10:12 PM Permalink
I agree, but with a minor correction. May the "LAW" punish the killers and not god. God's ways of punishment are well, a bit strange at times :-)
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by rajesh sankaran on Dec 11, 2007 10:18 PM Permalink
Sure, LAW is by us and for us - What we as the people of India decide is morally right and wrong, and we have already decided. Taking a life, no matter what reason other than personal safety is unacceptable. But now we have to emphasize and practice it. Dharma will prevail, no matter what.
RE:May his soul rest in peace.
by arindam majumdar on Dec 11, 2007 09:14 PM Permalink
would u say the same if the deceased was your child or in that case a close relative of yours???
RE:May his soul rest in peace.
by rajesh sankaran on Dec 11, 2007 09:33 PM Permalink
Good Question. World over there is a custom that when there is a death in a house, people visit the family and pay their condolences, tell them encouraging words to get them out of the sorrow. This not done coz the loss of the person is immaterial, but one has to carry on with his life, and we as outsiders to teh family do it, as we are not directly affected by it and have better clarity of mind that given situation. The greatest strength of all god has given us is the power of forgetting, bearing which we would never get over even the smallest sorrow in our minds. Now we can do two things, write inflammatory messages and make the death of the child sound silly, or understand and find ways to tell people to look beyond all these. Normally, in very religious Hindu families ( I am not very much aware of how and what happens in others, pardon my ignorance ), they hold a recital/explanation of the Gheeta or Ramayana etc... in order to get mental strength from the wisdom of these texts. What we are to do as good citizens is to find ways as to how this can be avoided, that is very easy,being what we want others to be. Pointing fingers will only aggravate the situation, but never provide solution.
Now to the part of what I would have done if it were my child? yes, I would be devastated, teary, my life would seem merely senseless without him/her,I might end up with bad and disastrous thoughts, thats when I need advice from others, that cosmic philosophical assurance.
RE:May his soul rest in peace.
by girish s on Dec 11, 2007 08:42 PM Permalink
Punish them, for they know not what they have done and dont repeat it when they grow up.
RE:May his soul rest in peace.
by rajesh sankaran on Dec 11, 2007 09:04 PM Permalink
Peace : What has happened, has happened. For good and bad. It is a lesson for all of us who are not directly involved with it, a harbinger of the future, ofcourse we have every power to change it and bad for the families involved. Lets pray that his soul rest in peace and lets be peaceful as citizens of the world and not start a blame game.
Tolerance: Let us be tolerant, and understand that everyone of us is different, and killing or hurting them does not make the world a better place to live. Above all as many other people have already said, let us be that example our sons and daughters will be proud of and will be eager to ape.
The law will take its own course, above all there is this conscience of a person. One can escape from any law, but never from one's own felt guilt.
Truth be told, peace wins more than power in the long run.
