LARGER LIVING ... 2
There is a desperation in the human mind, born out of a sense of helplessness in the face of the uncontrollable elements that threaten life itself, that brings forth a reckless courage in combating life's evils. And there is hope and a sense of fatalistic security in the belief that a merciful and just God will, after all, protect them that quickens this courage in threatened souls. Eventually, it is the innocence of ordinary people and their sheer helplessness in the face of religious persecution and terrorism thereof that calls out the nobility of their beings in living their lives in divine dependence and in goodness.
Such stressful circumstances of sustained persecution brings out the best of community feeling among these oppressed people and ennobles them in their increasing sense of the impermanence of life and the futility of a mere material living. Their close encounter with death and destruction makes them value life more, increases their empathy and draws out in their growing detachment their most courageous elements to combat the dangers that ever stalk their lives.
Ultimately, it is the triumph of their souls amidst adversity that makes their larger living for the common good a celebration in a collapsing world of desperate dreams.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Coptic Christians of Egypt who are under enormous Islamic fanatical persecution.
There is a desperation in the human mind, born out of a sense of helplessness in the face of the uncontrollable elements that threaten life itself, that brings forth a reckless courage in combating life's evils. And there is hope and a sense of fatalistic security in the belief that a merciful and just God will, after all, protect them that quickens this courage in threatened souls. Eventually, it is the innocence of ordinary people and their sheer helplessness in the face of religious persecution and terrorism thereof that calls out the nobility of their beings in living their lives in divine dependence and in goodness.
Such stressful circumstances of sustained persecution brings out the best of community feeling among these oppressed people and ennobles them in their increasing sense of the impermanence of life and the futility of a mere material living. Their close encounter with death and destruction makes them value life more, increases their empathy and draws out in their growing detachment their most courageous elements to combat the dangers that ever stalk their lives.
Ultimately, it is the triumph of their souls amidst adversity that makes their larger living for the common good a celebration in a collapsing world of desperate dreams.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Coptic Christians of Egypt who are under enormous Islamic fanatical persecution.
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