To Ravi and the group about Amma's Comment on Cartoon

[Guest guest]

Ravi wrote:

 

Please use your intelligence.

Amma is pretty much saying that people get hurt for various reasons

and they react based upon their samsakaras. She never says reaction is

good, she says respond but not react.

 

 

 

Dear Ravi & group ~ this is Amma, the Divine Mother, and you are absolutely

correct that what she is doing is explaining the reality of human behavior.

Her basic message, which is clear from her words, is that this issue of

someone feeling understandably hurt or wounded by satiric or sarcastic

references

to their beliefs could happen to anyone and to everyone, not just to Muslims

"reacting" to a western cartoon about their beliefs. That's why she uses the

general example of "your wife" and "your mother," to demonstrate that "if

someone mocks

that, (belief, image, person) it will wound them." She is not even saying

that feeling wounded is bad. It seems she is saying we are all in this boat

together; let's treat each other well.

Just my 2 pennies ~ Linda