what is wrong?

I called my aunt who lives in England yesterday. Everything is fine with her and my uncle and cousin. I checked with my teacher-employer from London, his family is well too. Nevertheless, his place of business is right next to Russell Square Station and I hope no damage is done to persons and property.

My mind being too chatty and busy lately did not inquire for an understanding as to why such devastations would befall mankind. Lives of people going about minding their own business were crushed to unrecognizable pulp. It just proves that human beings did not learn and we are still as primitive as we have been. The only advancement that took place is technologically, which led to building and an amassing of weapons of destruction. Globalization only makes us smaller, weaker and more vulnerable to attacks. It is now so easy to kill, to destroy, to pulverize a country. All it takes is one bomb and logistics is never a hindrance. Stealth planes and submarines evade the radar screens.

Man is heading to destroy but never to unite. We always say that the heart must not rule the head for emotions drown the mind with tears. But don't ever forget the these are the tears that cleanse and soften the hardness of the mind whose logic and reasons deny love and compassion.

Peace cannot be brought about by war and violence. Peace is not a movement of non-violence either. Peace is a balance of mind and heart; of reason and love.

Blessings and love to those who see and to those who are blind. May the divine light shine upon all equally.

a light unto oneself

I am the truth of all human beings because as I breathe, so do they.

God made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. You see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? You see the foam, but not the ocean. Invoke Him with deeds, not words, for deeds are real and will save you in the afterlife.

Rumi, "Mathnawi"

restless

Again and again a hollow bamboo intrudes my psyche.
But I search not for something to fill the space.
It is not the void I fear;
But the acceptance of void, which unites the whole of Truth.