13 HURT AS BOMB-RIGGED CAR EXPLODES IN SRI LANKA

BOMB EXPLODED INSIDE A CAR TRANSPORTING
SCHOOLCHILDREN IN SRI LANKA, WOUNDING 13

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (EFE) - A car bomb exploded in northwest Sri Lanka on Friday and wounded 13 people, most of them schoolchildren about to travel in the van, the military said. It was the first major bomb blast reported in the country since government troops crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels in May, after a 25-year insurgency for an independent homeland. The military defeated the Tigers and ended a 25-year war in May, but soldiers and police have been rounding up a handful of rebels still in hiding and seizing massive caches of weapons since then.

Military spokesman said the bomb had been set up to explode when the engine was started Friday morning near the town of Kurunegala. The wounded included seven schoolchildren, aged mostly from 7 to 11, said Dr. Soma Rajamanthri of Kurunegala Teaching Hospital. She said others wounded were the driver, parents who were dropping off their children, and a nine-month-old baby. One child was critically injured, while the rest were out of danger, Rajamanthri said. The Tamil Tiger rebels had frequently targeted public transport killing and wounded hosts of civilians. Between 80,000 to 100,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka's civil war.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The heart is full of filth. Not pure heart. ... faults of kama (desire), krodha (anger), lobha (greed), moha (forgetfulness), mada (arrogance) and matsarya ... six enemies are in us everybody. We must capture those enemies, control those enemies through harinamam. They will come. They want to destroy our bhajan. Then only we can do it. You must be very careful with those six enemies. Those enemies if you conquer then easily your bhajan will move. ... Now we have to control. The most is malice. The malice is matsarya. Very important enemy. Very strong enemy. Malice.

Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaja :
" 'The Confidential Worship', a lecture given in Pula, Croatia - Jun, 17 2004"