[Reader-list] FW: FOURTH ESTATE CRITIQUE Fwd: Some QuestionsAboutThe Delhi Encounter

[Ramya Swayamprakash]

"Even nector in access is poison."- is that excess we are talking about or
will access to *nectar* kill?

Ramya.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:46 PM, <radhikarajen at vsnl.net> wrote:

> Dear Aarti, thanks for a practical reply to a question of ethics and
> morals. Let me take you to  a parable I read in some scripture, later it
> came as story also.
>
>  A son was being tried a court of law for a criminal offence. Judge after
> the trial gave death sentence to that son. Mother who was in court wailed,
> son asked the judge to permit him to talk to his mother, he was permitted.
> When he went near his mother, he bit her ear hard, she started bleeding and
> as all were wondering why this action from a son towards his mother, that
> son told all in the court. - this is my mother, when I brought a piece of
> pencil from the school, this mother did not tell me it was wrong. She
> appreciated the theft. Later i stole a chain, she was happy, because we were
> poor, it gave us good food for few more days. later i never went to school,
> started my criminal life, now, when I fought with my fellow criminals about
> sharing the loot, I stabbed him, he died. Even then my mother felt that good
> lawyers can help me escape, so some more dacoities and robberies, now as i
> face death, if my mother had warned me even once that what I was doing was
> wrong, I would
> not be in ths position. !
>
>   As to food habits, the more one eats tamasik food the more is the
> interest to be in violence. Any thing in moderation is good for body, mind
> and soul. Even nector in access is poison.
>
>  Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:46 pm
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] FW: FOURTH ESTATE CRITIQUE Fwd: Some
> QuestionsAboutThe Delhi Encounter
> To: radhikarajen at vsnl.net
> Cc: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>, sarai list <
> reader-list at sarai.net>
>
> > Dear Radhika,
> >
> > If your son was accused of a terrorist attack which killed 23
> > people what
> > would your first reaction be I am interested to know? Would you
> > not react
> > with horror just as she is? Would you not recoil from the fact
> > that your own
> > son might be responsible for such senseless violence? Would it not be
> > impossible for you to reconcile the person you knew and loved and
> > broughtup, with the fact that he might have planned the deaths of
> > two dozen people?
> > What is so strange about her reaction? I find it heartbreaking
> > actually to
> > see her cry on television. Just as I find heartbreaking reading
> > what the
> > families of those who died, those who are in hospital, are going
> > through.Terror and violence break and tear human beings apart.
> > Including those who
> > are the perpetrators and their families.
> >
> > I would react exactly the same way. How would you prefer she react
> > instead?Disown her son and immediately offer him up at the altar
> > of national
> > security?
> >
> > And there is no disinformation in my post at all. Unless you are
> > claimingthat the incident never occurred of course? Are you?
> > Here's a report:
> > http://kafila.org/2008/08/25/bomb-makers-of-hindutva/
> >
> >
> > not capable of killing even a cockraoch just as they eat iftar
> > with meaty
> > > kabas.!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > What is this supposed to mean? What does what someone eats have to
> > do with
> > their capacity for violence?
> >
> > regards
> > Aarti
> >
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