NEW YORK TO REMEMBER 9/11 VICTIMS

MANY CEREMONIES TO HONOR SEPTEMBER 11 VICTIMS
AND OBAMA OBSERVING MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THEM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Solemn memorial services in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Friday will mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. President Barack Obama will lead the country in pausing to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks. The eighth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center is due to be commemorated in New York. A ceremony will be held at Ground Zero, where the twin towers stood, to remember those who died on 11 September 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died on that tragic day eight years ago as hijacked jetliners smashed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in western Pennsylvania.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama will observe a moment of silence Friday at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, the moment the first jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Then the president will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon memorial, where 184 people were killed. Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are to meet with victims' relatives.

In the picture you can see the "Tribute in Light" near the World Trade Center site in New York City a day before the memorial services.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The 360 days and 360 nights combine to become the 720 soldiers of Candavega (time). One has to fight these soldiers throughout one's lifespan, beginning with birth and ending with death. This fight is called the struggle for existence. Despite this struggle, however, the living entity does not die. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (2.20), the living entity is eternal:

na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin
nāyam bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyah
ajo nityah śāśvato 'yam purāno
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre

"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." Actually the living entity does not take birth nor does he die, but he has to fight with the stringent laws of material nature throughout the entire span of his lifetime. He must also face different kinds of miserable conditions. Despite all this, the living entity, due to illusion, thinks that he is well situated in sense gratification.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"The Srimad Bhagavatam - Purport in Canto 4 - Chapter 27 - Verse 16"