To the Group on Terrorist Attacks in India

[Guest guest]

Dear Brothers & Sisters n Amma,

 

My heart weeps this morning for those killed and injured in the terrorist

attacks in New Delhi today. Three bombs were detonated nearly simultaneously.

Only one, in a suspicious bag left on a bus after a passenger got off, did not

wreak grevious havoc. Two people were injured in that attack. The other two

attacks, which occurred in flourishing market places, killed 61 people and

injured 188...this was at the time the article on AOL was placed.

 

Amma must be weeping that Her own land is now suffering the aggregious

attacks that have beset many other countries. And the dark clouds are not

dispersing. We must do what we can. Another post from Prashanti talked about the

suffering people in Kashmir who are literally trapped by the wreckage left by

the

earthquake, and the UN is going to cease its helicopter aid flights, just as

winter comes on. So many countries are suffering from terrorists attacks.

 

May we pray that the leaders of these countries put aside their differences

and work together, not to focus on only one country, but to seek terrorists

before they can attack and bring them to justice in some kind of world court?

May we write to our own leaders and ask them to do this? May we write the

M.A. Center as Prashanti suggested and ask if there are any plans to assist

those in Kasmir? They could have another web auction.

 

So many of Amma's children are helping in so many ways, from the practical

needs of the tsunami and hurricane victims to donations and special events to

raise money for longer term needs. I know that Mother never intended to

create an "organization," but Her devotees are perhaps some of the most

organized

groups in the world when it comes to rallying help to those in serious need.

I am so sad that this beloved and sacred land is now also the target of the

terrorists...and just two days before Diwali.

 

I am reminded of a movie, "Audry Rose," I recently watched again, rather old

with a very young Anthony Hopkins. This movie is about a child who

reincarnated quickly after being burned alive in a terrible car accident. The

"new"

child, whose name I can't recall, began to relive the experience of being

burned, over and over again, and would actually have burn marks on her hands

after

pounding on her bedroom window. Anthony Hopkins' character watches from afar

until he feels certain that this child is the reincarnation of his own

beloved daughter, and despite the antagonism of the family, especially the

father,

he is the only one who can help the child when she is in the throes of

reliving the burning. He would just stand or crouch and call softly, "Audrey

Rose,

Audrey Rose ... it's Daddy," over and over, and she would begin to calm down

and eventually run into his arms.

 

At one point Hopkins' character meets with the parents in a restaurant,

after they have discovered him following the wife and daughter around. He tells

of the death of his daughter, and his long search for answers, which finally

led him to India, where he spent a considerable amount of time. In India, he

tells the parents, he saw abject poverty and yet these were some of the

happiest people he had ever seen anywhere on earth. He felt it was due to their

belief that when the body dies, the soul lives on. Eventually they all end up

in

a trial (kind of like "Miracle on 34th Street), where what is on trial is

whether or not reincarnation exists. I won't say more, in case anyone wishes to

watch this thought-provoking and wonderful movie, but it came into my mind as

I was writing of the terrorist attacks in India.

 

We can each, in our own unique way, be part of the solution. Jai Jai Ma ~

Linda