It's completely beyond my comprehension as to how someone can kill another human being! The news that Sunanada Pushkar was murdered and then the Paris killings the very next day rattled my mind. What leads a person to take somebody's life, to kill their story short? We cannot decide for ourselves who we would be born as - a man or a woman; into a rich family or a poor family; in a liberal educated family or a conservative family or whether we will have any family at all! When we will come into this world or what we will look like or how tall we will grow into - we cannot decide anything for ourself. How then can we decide when another person should leave this world?
What is so important than the life of a human being? Freedom or a revenge or some material accession? All those are just things after all. With the person who is killed, a story is finished too soon, a dream mutilated and a bunch of lives shattered forever. Because that person was a parent, a spouse, a sibling, an offspring or had dreamnt to be some of these. The immediate family pays a heavy price & gets wounds which can never be healed and a life permanently altered for worse.
If taking a revenge is the motive, the pain inflicted upon you is the pain you are giving to someone else. Does that solve the problem? Does killing somebody bring your loved ones back? Did you deserve the pain in the first place? Because if you give that pain to someone else, you are justifying that you also deserved it. And if owning something is your motive, does that acquisition make you happy enough to justify ruining so many lives? Or if it's just freedom, then at what price? A man can never know how much pain does a woman go through to bring a child into this world and to raise that child into a responsible adult. It only takes a second to take the life out of that painstakingly raised son or daughter.
It's absolutely mind bogglingly cold blooded thing to take a life purposefully. I think men should also bear children, that definitely will solve a lot of problems in this world.
But then we can't decide who we will be born as, what abilities our mind and our bodies will have, whether we will have congenital defects or we will be midgets or too tall to be acceptable. It's all planned and orchestrated by God almighty and has to be accepted as the Will of God. All we can do is teach our children patience and humility and the ability to practise restraint. That needs 'us' to put into practice all these values in the first place. So be patient, loving and forgiving because every religion teaches the same.
What is so important than the life of a human being? Freedom or a revenge or some material accession? All those are just things after all. With the person who is killed, a story is finished too soon, a dream mutilated and a bunch of lives shattered forever. Because that person was a parent, a spouse, a sibling, an offspring or had dreamnt to be some of these. The immediate family pays a heavy price & gets wounds which can never be healed and a life permanently altered for worse.
If taking a revenge is the motive, the pain inflicted upon you is the pain you are giving to someone else. Does that solve the problem? Does killing somebody bring your loved ones back? Did you deserve the pain in the first place? Because if you give that pain to someone else, you are justifying that you also deserved it. And if owning something is your motive, does that acquisition make you happy enough to justify ruining so many lives? Or if it's just freedom, then at what price? A man can never know how much pain does a woman go through to bring a child into this world and to raise that child into a responsible adult. It only takes a second to take the life out of that painstakingly raised son or daughter.
It's absolutely mind bogglingly cold blooded thing to take a life purposefully. I think men should also bear children, that definitely will solve a lot of problems in this world.
But then we can't decide who we will be born as, what abilities our mind and our bodies will have, whether we will have congenital defects or we will be midgets or too tall to be acceptable. It's all planned and orchestrated by God almighty and has to be accepted as the Will of God. All we can do is teach our children patience and humility and the ability to practise restraint. That needs 'us' to put into practice all these values in the first place. So be patient, loving and forgiving because every religion teaches the same.
