BLAST ATTACK AGAINST FOLLOWERS OF SUFI TRADITION

BOMB KILLED 6, INJURED 16 AT
SUFI SHRINE IN EASTERN PAKISTAN

(Reuters) - A bomb exploded at the gate of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s eastern city of Pak Pattan on Monday, killing six people, a city government official said. The explosive was planted on a motorcycle, city police chief Mohammad Kashif told Reuters by telephone. “According to initial reports, two men came on the motorcycle and parked it near the gate just minutes before the blast,” he said, adding 12 people were also wounded in the explosion. At least a 200 people have been reported to be present at the time of the blast. The injured were taken to the District Headquarters hospital in Pakpattan. Ten injured people were said to be in critical condition. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Taliban militants have in the past attacked Sufi shrines. Pakistan’s U.S.-backed government faces a stubborn Taliban insurgency. In the past, Taliban claimed responsibility for such attacks but according to police investigations, sectarian groups are often found behind attacks on shrines.

In Karachi, a police official said the Abdullah Shah Ghazi attackers belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni sectarian outfit that has previously targeted Shias. In recent years it has developed ties with Taliban and al-Qaida and founded sanctuaries in the restive tribal areas. Criticising the government, Pakistan’s leading religious scholar, Mufti Muneebur Rehman, said the government has failed to protect the shrines of Sufis.
Hard-line Taliban militants generally abhor the Sufi strand of Islam and disapprove of visiting shrines, which is popular with many Pakistanis.


The places where Muslims honor the memory of Sufi saints are priority targets of Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, where more than 3,700 people have been killed in more than 400 attacks, primarily committed by Taliban allies to Al Qaeda or allied armed groups, who in their limited spiritual vision consider the Sufis Muslims as heretics and sacrilegious. Since everyone has a different body and mind, different types of religions are needed, and each of them called God using different names: Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Yahweh, Krishna, etc. Though there are many different religions in the world - each having their own name for God - God is still one. Only those souls situated on the spiritual platform can experience the oneness in religion.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Though God may have many different names, He is still one. There isn’t a separate God for Hindus and a separate God for Christians or those following other faiths. ... God guides us based on our capacity to learn. The material world is made up of three distinct modes called “gunas”: goodness, passion, and ignorance. Vedic literature accounts for all these modes by having eighteen different Puranas, which are scriptures relating to ancient Vedic stories. .... We may see many different rituals, and different processes for spiritual advancement, but the best religion is that which teaches us to love God. In this age, Lord Chaitanya inaugurated the sankirtana movement, the congregational chanting of the holy names of God, “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.” If we commit ourselves to chanting daily and following the process of devotional service, then we will surely see that God is one and that He is in everything and everyone.

Krishna’s Mercy - Jai Shri Krishna :
“God is One” - Written and posted by Keshava, on 8/16/2009
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