'SHINING PATH' KILLS FIVE IN SOUTHERN PERU

PERUVIAN REBELS SUSPECTED IN ATTACK
POLICE OFFICERS AND KILLS 5

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on a remote police post in a coca-growing region. The two women killed were relatives of one of the slain officers. The attack occurred in San Jose de Secce in Ayacucho province in Peru's south-central mountains. The ministry said the assault, taking place in the early hours of Sunday in San Jose de Secce in the Ayacucho region, was probably staged by Shining Path, a Peruvian rebel group involved in drug trafficking.Ayacucho is the birthplace of the Shining Path, which all but disappeared in the 1990s.

Remnants amounting to several hundred fighters have in recent months killed dozens of police and soldiers. These remnants of the group attacked an army base in the Ayacucho region in April this year, killing 13 soldiers.They are chiefly funded by the cocaine trade. The Ayacucho region is covered by plantations of coca leaf, a primary ingredient of cocaine. Peru is currently the world's second-largest producer of coca leaf, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Shining Path launched its insurgency in the 1980s, but it almost disappeared after the arrest of its leader in the 1990s. The armed group is now believed to operate primarily in Ayacucho while trafficking cocaine among Andean highlands.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī said, viśvam, pūrna-sukhāyate: when one becomes Krishna conscious by the mercy of Lord Caitanya, for him the entire world appears happy, and he has nothing for which to hanker. On the brahma-bhūta stage, or the platform of spiritual realization, there is no lamentation and no material hankering (na śocati na kāńksati). As long as one lives in the material world, actions and reactions will continue, but when one is unaffected by such material actions and reactions, he is to be considered free from the danger of being victimized by material desires. The symptoms of those who are satiated with lusty desires are described in this verse. As explained by Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, when one is not envious even of his enemy, does not expect honor from anyone, but instead desires all well-being even for his enemy, he is understood to be a paramahamsa, one who has fully subdued the lusty desires for sense gratification.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"Srimad Bhagavatam - Purport in Canto 9 - Chapter 9 - Verse 15"