Regarding the cruel incident you mention, isn’t it strange (and painful) that we think of something other than ourselves only when such extreme things happen? Otherwise, the average human being remains just too busy with his selfish personal life, his little life of pleasure and pain, his trivial joys and his facile sufferings that keeps him tied to and occupied with the daily mechanical round of small desires and ignoble aims. These extreme events, painful though they are shake him out of his deep slumber, they break some cover of dense resistance and compel him to think.
But if mankind as a whole or even in parts heeded the Divine call to exceed itself or even lived for something higher and nobler, perhaps just a sufficient number to create a subtle inner field of pressure to evolve, life would be so much better. But man learns only the lesson of catastrophe and pain and rather than grow in the image of God seeks to turn even God into service of his small desires…..hence…..
Affectionately,
Alok Da
