Apart from some ad-hoc stray incidents of violence, Bangalore had so far seemed to be a relatively safer city so far. The call center employee’s gruesome murder was a pretty sharp shock to the illusion of security, it was like a cold water ruining everybody’s sound sleep!
This news article… was definitely a tight slap… 🙁
Terror attack at IISc, Bangalore; 1 killed, 4 injured
These are highly respectable people who have dedicated their entire life to the pursuit of knowledge. This is a very abrupt and rude end to the tranquility that I’ve known in the lovely campus of IISc (having visited it every now and then all my life as its pretty close to my house). Something like this can really turn the world upside down.
Of course the first thing that comes to mind is the need for the police and security forces to take smarter and more stringent security measures.
But apart from that, I remember reading an excerpt from Nipun’s blog…
At times like these, one needs a personal answer to life’s basic question — why do good things happens to bad people and bad things to good people? If you haven’t created a solid answer that fits your own ontology of life — karma, God, evolution, whatever — then you’re in real trouble. You might survive fine for a while but when your merits run short, when your conditions become unfavorable, you simply won’t have a context to accept the suffering. The why-question will sink your spirit. Of course, ultimately, those mental theories are still superficial band-aids; a deeper solution, in my opinion, comes from the service of others — first, it forces you to find the needy, then to witness the inter-connectedness of that need in your own self, and finally to experience humility for having no real solutions. Service work, in its purity, simply shows you that you’re caught up in the charades of your own ego and that ignorant arrogance incapacitates you from experiencing real love. And in the words of G. I. Joe, “Knowing is half the battle.”
We see spam email for free cellphones multiply so rapidly… wish that peace could propogate atleast at a small fraction of the same ease, because that’s what we really need in our world, probably pretty urgently.
Babies know it – that each of us are like a cellphone, always transmitting something or the other into the atmosphere. Its pretty incredible that whether we like it or not, we’re doing it anyway. A forced smile or a positive mental attitude are of course better than being gloomy or despondent, but are good enough to fool everybody at the external level, but nothing can be covered up at a more internal level. Viral said in his speech…
Recent scientific research, some of it documented in the Harvard Business Review, shows that when people touch or are in close proximity, one person’s heartbeat signal is registered in the other person’s brain waves, and vice versa. They also found that our emotions are reflected in the patterns of our heart rhythms. So what does that mean? It means that we are communicating very significant information — information that affects us — without even realizing it!
So if we are happy, if we are peaceful, if we are loving, then that actually makes a difference to the people around us, on a very physiological level. And it’s not just our words and our actions that create these effects outside, but even our Thoughts, emotions, feelings, All these things actually make a tangible difference too.
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