8 years ago on November 26, 2008, 10 terrorists targeted several high-profile locations in Mumbai, including the landmark Taj Hotel at the Gateway, the Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point, Leopold Café, and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus - killing up to 166 people, and leaving 300 injured. Up to 26 foreign nationals were among those killed by the terrorists.. There were brace policemen who fought for Mumbai's safety and laid down their own life. 18 security personnel were martyred in the attack. This is the day to remember their sacrifice.
Actually there are 2 kinds of heroes, one who protects, saves our body, society, nation etc from outside attacks and other is one who protects our soul from inside attacks. Both are extremely important, we can't give impotence to body forgetting soul neither only look for soul forgetting necessities of body, both should go together. Spiritual teachers who helps us to protects our mind from contaminations are as much important as soldiers standing on border protecting nation, we can't ignore the contribution of spiritual heroes.
Spiritual teachers, saints are protecting our culture of devotion from invaders, sacrificing their own life they are preaching about devotional service everywhere. Many of them threatened to death by local kings, blind religionists and politicians but they didn't stop, many of them were actually killed(e.g. just go through the life of Sripad Ramanujacharya, Saint of 1100th century, his disciple Kuresh and Guru Mahapurna were tortured for preaching about Lord).
When the emotions, problems, desires haunts us, they attack us on most important location 'mind', which can kill us spiritually, forgetting our relationship with God. We can only deal with these attacks with the help of spiritual heroes, the aacharyas, who have sacrificed their life for the mission of the God. They are protecting and uplifting our consciousness from internal terrorists like lust, anger, greed etc to service of the God. In conclusion we need external as well as internal protectors without minimising the importance of anyone of them.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Actually there are 2 kinds of heroes, one who protects, saves our body, society, nation etc from outside attacks and other is one who protects our soul from inside attacks. Both are extremely important, we can't give impotence to body forgetting soul neither only look for soul forgetting necessities of body, both should go together. Spiritual teachers who helps us to protects our mind from contaminations are as much important as soldiers standing on border protecting nation, we can't ignore the contribution of spiritual heroes.
Spiritual teachers, saints are protecting our culture of devotion from invaders, sacrificing their own life they are preaching about devotional service everywhere. Many of them threatened to death by local kings, blind religionists and politicians but they didn't stop, many of them were actually killed(e.g. just go through the life of Sripad Ramanujacharya, Saint of 1100th century, his disciple Kuresh and Guru Mahapurna were tortured for preaching about Lord).
When the emotions, problems, desires haunts us, they attack us on most important location 'mind', which can kill us spiritually, forgetting our relationship with God. We can only deal with these attacks with the help of spiritual heroes, the aacharyas, who have sacrificed their life for the mission of the God. They are protecting and uplifting our consciousness from internal terrorists like lust, anger, greed etc to service of the God. In conclusion we need external as well as internal protectors without minimising the importance of anyone of them.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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