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Wednesday,
December 25,
2002, Chandigarh, India  
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’84 riots: yet another verdict! Gujarat
plank Groping in the dark |
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The way ahead in Jammu and Kashmir
The complaints game!
Dabwali revisited after seven years
At 50 men turn romantic, women ambitious
Video game violence spreads
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’84 riots: yet another verdict! JUSTICE delayed is justice denied. But what is justice denied in the context of the Delhi Additional Sessions Court verdict in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom? Ask the survivors of the worst communal carnage in post-Independence India and read the pain in their eyes to get the answer. Politics of the most diabolical kind was responsible for the large-scale massacre of innocent Sikh women, children and men. It was the Congress version of Hindutva that sought revenge for the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards that was played out on the streets of Delhi. Congress leaders have since then expressed regret over the carnage for winning back the trust and the votes of the members of the Sikh community. But the callousness that the top Congress leadership displayed shortly after the horrifying incidents ensured that the victims would not get justice. Had the sense of remorse and shock been genuine Rajiv Gandhi and his advisers would have directed the police not to spare anyone associated with the anti-Sikh riots irrespective of his or her political affiliation. But that did not happen. Vital evidence was allowed to be destroyed through the delaying tactics adopted by the police under instructions from the political leadership. The upshot was that Mr Sajjan Kumar, a senior Congress leader from Delhi, walked out a free man after Additional Sessions Judge Manju Goel dismissed the case against him and 12 others on Monday. Cases against Mr H. K. L. Bhagat and Mr Jagdish Tytler were dismissed earlier on similar grounds — the evidence was not sufficient to prove their guilt. There is little that the judiciary can do in such cases except follow the procedure prescribed by law to prevent miscarriage of justice. But the verdicts that saw the top Congress leaders and their henchmen being set free by courts for want of evidence were examples of miscarriage of justice because of political manipulation of the investigation of the incident. The fact of the matter is that the law of the land in its present form simply does not have the power to ensure the conviction of politicians of any hue allegedly involved in acts of heinous crime or corruption or both. In the anti-Sikh riot case the benefit of the doubt saw Mr Sajjan Kumar, Mr Bhagat and Mr Tytler being set free. Whether the judiciary will deliver a different verdict in the Babri Masjid demolition case is a matter of conjecture. One can only make an intelligent guess and leave it at that. Will the Godhra victims get justice? And don’t forget the dance of death that was witnessed on the streets of Gujarat a day after the dastardly attack on coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express near Godhra in which kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya were roasted alive. Will the perpetrators of what was described as crime against humanity be brought to justice? What can be said at this point of time is that the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership should look at its own record before accusing the Congress of subverting the process of justice in the anti-Sikh riots case. |
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Gujarat plank NOTHING succeeds like success - and excess. The BJP is punch drunk on its victory in Gujarat and has triumphantly declared that it would contest the coming elections in other states on the same Hindutva plank. What the contours of the repeated experiment will be has been left unsaid, but it is not at all difficult to guess what the BJP has in mind. Suffice it to say that the blueprint will be applied complete with warts and all. For form’s sake, it has asked Sangh Parivar outfits to tone down their comments when they speak in the name of Hindutva. But that is hardly going to be a restraining factor when it comes to brass tacks. Apparently, the party has no regrets about what happened in Gujarat and the long-term consequences of this dangerous brand of electioneering. The party bosses seem to have convinced themselves that the only way to come back to power is through this particular technique. It has every reason to stick to the tried and tested formula, like the director of a B-class Bollywood movie, but the plot may not unfold exactly the way the BJP wants it to. For one thing, what may have done the trick in Gujarat may not be equally efficacious elsewhere on a larger canvas. Like it or not, the Godhra and Akshardham temple massacres had left the Gujarat public deeply agitated. The “Hindutva-under-attack” slogan may touch a raw nerve elsewhere too, but the proximity factor will be missing. Even otherwise, experience so far is that you cannot milk an emotive issue too often. The law of diminishing return comes into play. Just look at what happened in the Ayodhya temple case. Two, the BJP will have to contend with the reaction of its NDA allies. Mr Karunanidhi and Mr Sharad Yadav have already come out strongly against the BJP line. If the kind of frenzy raised in Gujarat is attempted in other states, many other parties may rail against the move. And three, the Hindu voters which it wants to woo may not be as gullible as it imagines them to be. Quite a few of them may have a soft corner for Hindutva and all that it stands for but if their aspersions are seen only through the prism of electoral motives, they may spring a surprise or two. There is a vast silent majority which is none too happy with the communal venom that has been injected into the body politic. For them, secularism is not just a catch-word. It is they who may play a deciding role in the forthcoming election drama. |
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Groping in the dark MANY parts of the northern region went without power for at least six hours on Monday. With this, all power-based services came to a halt. Water supply was disrupted. Trains got delayed. Industrial production came to a standstill. According to one estimate, if power transmission is suspended for a day, industry alone suffers a production loss of up to Rs 500 crore. Being used to frequent power disruptions in winter as well as summer, neither industry nor the individual consumer worries too much about it. There are no protests since these will hardly make any difference to those at the helm of affairs. Power disruption on such a large scale has become an unfailing annual occurrence. This is the third consecutive year to witness a regional-level power breakdown in winter. It happens during either late December or early January. And the electricity officials pass on the blame to nature. Every year when there is fog, the dust on the transmission lines turns into a paste, affecting the insulators. If rain precedes fog, then the transmission lines get washed off the dust and there is no consequent breakdown of the northern power grid. The obvious implication of this official explanation is: if there is a power failure, do not fret and fume. Just relax and accept it as God’s will. The ordinary citizens can take solace from the fact that even the top brass of the administration is also without power, though for a shorter duration. Why rain gets delayed almost every winter is not hard to discover. Given the high level of environmental pollution, the alarmingly shrinking forest cover and over-exploitation of natural resources, such atmospheric disturbances are all but natural. It is not just the northern region, but the entire country which is yet to wake up to the need to clean up the messy power sector. With the Enron fiasco, the situation has only worsened. The government is in a bind, unable to take any corrective action. Large amounts of funds are required to straighten up the much abused system. All sections of power consumers — the citizen, industry and the agriculture sector — are opposed to paying user-charges. Politicians too jump in to fish in troubled waters. They resist any tariff hike. Almost all state electricity boards are on the brink of bankruptcy, unable to clear their dues. The governments, either in the states or the one at the Centre, have no funds to tap fully the country’s power potential and improve the efficiency of the transmission system. Privatisation of the distribution and generation systems has shown mixed results. With the Enron debris yet to be cleared, no cash-rich multinational company will step in. As a result, we carry on with the worn-out system, doing patch-up work here and there. There is no lasting solution to the continuing power crisis. |
The way ahead in Jammu and Kashmir IN an earlier article on August 7, 2002, I had stated, “the assembly elections in J & K are far more important than any in the past. It could be a turning point; either for winning the hearts and minds of the people in the state and thus isolating terrorism and its support base in Pakistan, or for worsening of the politico-military situation due to neglect or inadequate attention to details. It is an opportunity for reconciliation or further alienation.” The successful conduct of elections in J & K, with greater participation than expected, has been a useful step towards restoring the confidence of the people in Indian democracy and fair play. The elections have also brought some diplomatic dividends. There is greater international support for our position on J&K than in the last decade, and to some degree, even on account of cross-border terrorism that India faces in the state. This, however, is not a time for complacency. The elections, as expected, have raised people’s aspirations. There is now the need to articulate a clear road-map for the state: a systematic policy for checking infiltration and violence, and a package of political and economic measures that will further reduce the alienation of the average Kashmiri from India and help create conditions for sustained stability. It is also essential to build on the support gained internationally after the elections. Let me take the counter-infiltration and counter-terrorism measures first. There is no change in Pakistan’s policy on J & K. We must expect the continuation of jehadi terrorists’ violence and perhaps even an escalation. Selected statistics notwithstanding, there has been no decline in the infiltration or terrorist incidents in the state. Such a trend demands not only no lowering of the security guard but strengthening of counter-infiltration and counter-terrorism measures. Active (if not pro-active) management of the Line of Control and the border must continue to be a priority. This has improved in recent months, but a more effective deployment and patrolling system, border-fencing where possible, real time intelligence gathering and sharing, monitoring of the terrorists’ communication network, and improved interdiction technologies (electronic and other type of sensors) are essential if infiltration has to be made more difficult or costly for the enemy. The recent killing of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA, Abdul Aziz Mir, and other innocents in Rajouri, Poonch and Sopore should make the Congress-PDP coalition government realise the difficulties ahead in implementing its “healing touch” approach. The jehadi terrorists’ target was not the government led by Dr Farooq Abdullah. Nor is it the present one led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. Their targets are democracy, secularism and a progressive society. “Healing touch” is a useful and desirable approach for winning the hearts and minds of the people and isolating the terrorists. However, there can be no mercy for those who indulge in or encourage terrorist activities. The Unified Headquarters in the past has served the counter-terrorism effort well. It should, therefore, be maintained and strengthened. Its dedicated staff, drawn from different services, should meet more often under the Chief Minister. A similar system should also be organised at the divisional and district levels. The deployment of security forces in a counter-insurgency grid, primarily under the Army and the Rashtriya Rifles, should continue until peace and tranquillity are assured. Our security forces have a good track record of discipline, impartiality and observance of human rights. They can adopt double standards in dealing with terrorists: ruthless with foreign and confirmed local terrorists, but slightly lenient with those locals who are now willing to give up arms. In the long run, the J&K police must bear the brunt of policing and gaining people’s confidence. The J&K police must be enlarged; its training, including respect for human rights, improved and its morale enhanced. Better communication equipment and mobility, regular promotions, a system of rewards for meritorious service and improved housing should be looked into. At the local level, the Village Defence Guards should be provided better training, arms and communication facilities. The surrendered militants could be rehabilitated with the Village Defence Guards. One of the key limitations of counter-terrorism efforts has been in intelligence gathering and assessment. The reluctance to share intelligence among different organisations and delays in communicating information to “action teams” continue. These weaknesses must be overcome. And now on the more important issues of winning the hearts and minds of the people! The essence of this lies in good governance. The essential pre-requisites for ensuring good governance in J&K are (a) a strong and stable economic infrastructure that can energise the entrepreneurial potential of the people of the state and generate employment; (b) accountable, streamlined and people-sensitive administration; (c) a speedy grievance redressal system that includes an upright and effective judiciary; and (d) revival of Kashmir’s traditionally tolerant society and its expression in the form of Kashmiriyat. Plans for economic resuscitation of the state must focus on both short-term and long-term measures. The former, necessary to build early confidence, will include “roti, kapra, bijli, pani, sehat, security aur school”. These must be made functional up to the village level and all improvements made visible. In the absence of private investment, the state public sector has to play a major role. Such a programme should provide for the restoration of the tourism industry, cottage industry, better marketing facilities for agricultural products, rapid expansion or improvement of educational facilities, and setting up of additional ITIs and IITs. Modern educational facilities, at an affordable cost, should diminish the role of madarsa education. The long-term measures will include, primarily, the infrastructure: road and rail communications and hydroelectric power. Central assistance towards power generation is vital, especially to provide counter-guarantees for non- state and foreign investment. The Indian Railway has planned the construction of a Jammu-Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramullah rail track. This scheme is lagging behind. Even the first part has not been made commercial yet. Further budgetary support and independent monitoring is necessary for this important project, which has both strategic and economic ramifications. The Central Government could consider setting up a group of eminent specialists and administrators to advise and monitor the implementation of the economic and social package. The state civil services, particularly the Kashmir Administrative Service and the Kashmir Police Service, need to be energised with better talent and political monitoring (not interference!). The Central Government should assist in offering better training facilities to the officers recruited into these cadres. For the border belt, where communications are a problem and greater liaison is essential with the Army, the government could consider taking some armed forces’ officers (belonging to the state) on deputation to look after local administration and development. This is not a new idea: it was practised in the form of the Indian Frontier Administrative Service in the past. The concept of raising Development TA battalions, on the lines of Ecological TA battalions, could also be considered for rapid development of more sensitive areas. Autonomy and devolution of authority is about empowering people, making them feel that they belong to a progressive state, and about increasing the accountability of public institutions and services. In J & K, autonomy and devolution of authority carry resonance with the people, because it is generally believed that many pliant local leaders have in the past, in collusion with Central leaders, gradually eroded the autonomy promised by the Constitution. There is no contradiction between wanting Kashmir to be part of the national mainstream and the state’s desire for self-governance. Equally vital is the need for the devolution of powers within the state between Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. A healthier regional balance can be achieved through the devolution of powers to the panchayat level, and having regional councils at the provincial level. For long-term social stability, it is necessary to revive J&K’s traditional civil society based on the pluralistic cultural ethos and Kashmiriyat. The Pandit and Muslim refugees who have left the valley must be rehabilitated and re-settled. The Centre and the state government need to work out a plan to provide security assurances and economic assistance to all those who are willing to return. Along with all the above mentioned measures, we need to launch a strong media and public relations drive to continuously expose Pakistan’s support to terrorism in J&K. We have plenty of direct evidence, but it has not been used systematically and in a coherent manner. This aspect needs correction so that people get to know the true facts before these become rumours, and also with a view to maintaining diplomatic pressure on Pakistan. We should also expose Pakistani “oppression” in the PoK. The denial of basic civil and political rights and the human rights abuses perpetuated by various Pakistani security agencies within PoK need to be brought to international attention as well as highlighted within J&K. General Malik (retd) was the Chief of Army Staff during the Indo-Pak Kargil war. |
The complaints game! “SIR, there has been a complaint filed against you with the Director,” the assistant informed his superintendent in an office. “Wait and see,” the superintendent responded with an air of disdain. “There will be one soon filed against the Director,” he added. And sure enough, the superintendent got a complaint engineered against the Director. The latter got so busy in managing the same that he almost gave up the one against the superintendent. Such a complaints-game is played in many an office, organisation and department, in India, perpetually and incessantly. The game has got rules of its own, which operate irrespective of their likeability and fairness or otherwise. For one, the complaints always keep growing in numbers. According to grapevine, ever since our Independence in 1947, the complaints have doubled themselves annually! Assuming that there was only one filed in that year, how many could have been filed in 2001? If the display panel on your calculator is not accommodative enough, switch over to a computer. You will thus realise that we have grown into a complaint-minded nation, albeit a thick skinned one. Then, complaints have got a tendency of thriving on themselves. Thus, once a complaint is made, soon there are counter-complaints against the complainant, the witnesses and even against the arbiter of the complaint. In the confusion so created, the casualty is, often, the truth. Complaints, specially the pseudonymous and the anonymous ones, appear in great numbers, like frogs in the rainy season, at the time of promotion etc of the person complained against. Though government instructions require such complaints to be filed straightaway, an expert investigator knows how to convert them into source reports. And sources, as you rightly guess, are not to be compromised. Complaints also generate a lot of money in the economy, albeit of the black variety. On receipt of a complaint in an office or organisation, it is a whole lot of officials down the hierarchy, who smile, for turning and twisting a complaint this way or that way is in their hands! Complaints, like the face of an ugly woman, need a makeup, to make them look worthwhile. It is here where the services of an expert complaints-writer (arzinavis) are of value. While drafting a complaint, he would exaggerate, make it read plain and complicated at the same time, and would make copies for all the authorities under the sun — the PM, the CM, the CVC, the DCBI et al — and would kindle a hope in you that someone out of them might, after all, take cognisance of the complaint. Complaints generally don’t result in achieving the desired objective of mitigating the evil, for example the corruption, for which they have been filed. Had it been otherwise, we would not have had the dubious distinction of being judged, year after year, as one of the most corrupt nations in the world. Even the survey of 2002 by the Berlin-based Transparency International put India at the 71st place in a group of 102 nations, arranged in the increasing order of prevalence of corruption therein. The most painful are, however, the complaints which are motivated and false, and specially if they are against honest and upright fellows. Sample the accusations in the following poem: The complaints against mighty and meandering rivers, From mountains, that they rob them of their tears, And from oceans, that they pour into them, the smears, And from men, that they fill them with fears!
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Dabwali revisited after seven years ON December 23, 1995, the marriage palace where Dabwali’s DAV School held its annual function turned into a burning furnace. The synthetic sheet of the pandal caught fire and spread at such a high velocity that the unsuspecting audience of children, their parents and teachers was trapped inside. Shockingly, 442 of them were burnt alive on the spot itself, four have remained untraced till date. Of the 300 who survived, at least 30 had to lose vital parts of their body to save their lives. All of them not only lost many near and dear ones but also got scars on their faces, glowing skins, velvety voices, beautiful hair and above all on their faith in the beauty of life. Dabwali eventually became a haunted place for the ones whose family members had perished in this fire. No wonder, in the past seven years at least 40 families have migrated out of Dabwali. Even the present President of the Dabwali Fire Victims’ Association, Harpal Singh, has moved to Bathinda, as he could not reconcile with the death of his son in the fire. People are full of remorse and anger that Mr Bhajan Lal, the then Chief Minister, did not fulfil any of the announcements he had made then. The then Deputy Commissioner, M P Bidlan, was the Chief Guest at the ill-fated function. “When the fire suddenly gripped the entire venue, Bidlan’s security guards reportedly pushed and shoved people in a frenzy to take Bidlan out. In the process, many people fell on the ground causing a stampede in which a majority lost their lives. “Till date he remains unpunished and unaccountable. However, our Association went to court, where the case is still pending”, recalls Mr Ram Parkash Sethi, who was then the main spokesman of the Association. He too has migrated from Dabwali to Parwanoo. A CBI inquiry was ordered. It held Bidlan guilty of not having performed his official duty. Two persons from the Rajiv Marriage Palace were held responsible for causing the fire and not having taken precautions. They are serving a two-year sentence in
jail. The Bansi Lal government ordered an official inquiry, which also indicted Bidlan. At present the case file on the action of this report is lying pending with the Home Ministry in Delhi, as the state government is not a competent authority to punish an IAS officer. The role of the DAV authorities at Dabwali has also been questioned by the victims. They allege that the school authorities had collected money in the name of this tragedy from India and abroad but did not utilise it sincerely for this purpose. “Besides the DAV authorities had announced that the student victims of fire will be given free education not only up to the school level but even in higher studies. However, they not only charged the fees from the victims within their school but also did not keep their promise of supporting them in higher education. Thus our Fire Victims’ Association went to the court against the DAV authorities, besides making the CBI, the Haryana and Central governments a party in the case. The court has asked for details of the funds collected”, reveals Vinod Bansal, the present official spokesperson of the Association. “Every patient required long-term treatment, including a plastic surgery, and yet the Bansi Lal government stopped funding their treatment. However, by the time we knocked at the door of the court, Mr Om Parkash Chautala had replaced Mr Bansi Lal as the CM. In May, 2002, he gave an undertaking in the court that the treatment of Dabwali fire victims will be resumed”, disclosed Vinod Bansal. Mr P.V. Narsimha Rao, the then Prime Minister, had made three announcements, which included building a 100-bed hospital at Dabwali, a multi-purpose hall and a sports stadium in memory of the fire victims. According to the present DC of Sirsa, Mr D. Suresh, “a 60-bed hospital at a cost of Rs 3.8 crore has been completed as also the multi-purpose hall at a cost of Rs 4.75 lakh. However, the sports stadium for which the Government of India released Rs 40 lakh is still under construction because the cost estimates have reached Rs 1.6 crore for which we are trying to make a provision. The present Chief Minister added three other projects — a memorial ‘Agnikand sathal, a ‘Birdh ashram’ and a library. The government had then announced Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia grant to each of the families of the victims. In this regard, we have already disbursed Rs 4.30 crore. Nineteen victims belonged to Punjab. The Haryana Government has paid Rs 50,000 each to their families too”. The Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust has taken up the responsibility of educating those students who had lost their parents in the fire. One of the students, Amit Kumar, has done exceedingly well in his school education and has been selected by Guru Jambeshwar University of Hisar for doing bio-medical engineering. The annual fee of this course is Rs 30,000. No wonder, he has written a touching letter to Vimla Dang, Honorary Secretary of the Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust. |
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At 50 men turn romantic, women ambitious MEN in their fifties turn romantic and are delighted to have the chance to rediscover coupledom and privacy. However, women at this stage desire to fulfil their potential and the last thing they look for is a clingy husband, according to two new Australian reports. Heartbeat, a social trends company, revealed the conflicting views of both men and women in two reports on the aspirations and lifestyles of the ageing baby boomers. After having realised that material success is meaningless without a loving partner, the men who were “the real newborn romantics” wanted to invest more time in relationships - with their wife, children and friends, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Interestingly, it was discovered that women were focused squarely on themselves and their own needs. It is the women, in particular, who feel energetic and wishes to fulfil all past dreams and make up for the past years. For women, this was the time to reignite old friendships; for men, it meant building new bridges, the report on aspiration showed. “While they appreciate their partners’ attention, they don’t want to feel smothered,” the report, Grey Boom - Dreams and Aspirations, says. Confronted by this female energy, the men are feeling a bit fragile. Wanting to make up for their focus on work, and under challenge from the office young guns, they turn to home for comfort. However, many find that the home is an empty kingdom. “Their female partners are asserting themselves and prioritising their own needs and they are not willing to step aside to let their men take over,” the second report, Grey Boom - Lifestyle, says. “Not surprisingly, this can cause a rift.” As well, with the children grown, or gone, the men feel they have lost their influence and are struggling to understand their role.
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Video game violence spreads A conservative group that monitors the video game industry warned of an “epidemic” of violence and called for tighter controls to keep such games from minors. The National Institute on Media and the Family named the notorious “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” as the worst game, citing an example where players are rewarded for having sex with a prostitute and then kicking her to death to avoid payment. The game sold over 3 million copies in its first month on the market and is in line to be the top-selling video game over the holiday period. “Video game violence is now an epidemic, and violence against women has become a black mark on the entire industry,” the report’s author and the institute’s founder, David Walsh, said in a statement. “Rewarding players for having sex with, and killing, a prostitute is a frightening example to set.” Other games roundly condemned by the report included “BMX XXX” which features semi-naked strippers, “Dead to Rights”, “Blood Rayne”, “Run Like Hell”, “Hunter the Reckoning”, “Hitman 2”, “Resident Evil Zero”, “Time Splitters” and “Whacked.” DPA Penalty shootout can trigger heart attack Penalty shoot-outs in football games can be a serious health hazard. Researchers have found that the number of heart attacks increased by 25 per cent when England lost to Argentina in a penalty shootout in the 1998 World Cup, according to a report published in the latest issue of British Medical Journal. The findings bolster the theory that heart attacks can be triggered by emotional upset. Researchers examined hospital admissions for heart attack, stroke, deliberate self-harm and road traffic injuries on the day of, and five days after, England’s World Cup matches. They compared them with admissions at the same time in previous and following years and in the month before the tournament. The risk of admission for heart attack increased by 25 per cent on June 30, 1998 (the day England lost to Argentina in a penalty shootout) and the following two days. No excess admissions occurred for any of the other diagnoses or on the days of the other England matches. Admissions were slightly higher in men than women.
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How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few His precepts! O! It is easier to keep holidays than commandments. —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack *** Men have made for the birth of Jesus a festival, and for his death a day of mourning: but with him it was the reverse. The symbol of sacrifice is not the cross but the cradle. So long as Christians continue to believe that the divinity of Jesus depends on his own virginity or his mother’s, they cannot have a true morality. The Christianity of Christ died when Asia ceased to teach it.... Asia gave us the Christ once..... Will she give him to us again. —Paul Richard, The Scourge of Christ *** Jesus Christ was God — the personal God become man. He has manifested himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. If you think that Christ was a man do not worship him, but as soon as you can realise that he is God, worship him. Those who say he was a man and then worship him commit blasphemy. “He that hath seen me (the son) hath seen the Father”. Without seeing the son you cannot see the Father. —Swami Vivekananda, “Great Teachers of the World” *** Christ is not the property of either East or West — an East-West bond is manifested in his life. His universality is what makes him so wonderful.... In order to love Christ you must live what he taught, you must follow the example of his life. —Paramahansa Yogananda, Man’s Eternal Quest and other Talks.
*** Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. —The Bible, Matthew, 5.7. Compiled by Satish K. Kapoor |
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