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Life Lessons from Sunjwan Camp Attack

In a tragic incident on 10 February 2018, at predawn, Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeens attacked an Indian army camp in Sunjuwan, Jammu city. 6 Indian soldiers lost their precious life guarding the base and all 4 militants were neutralised in the operation followed by the attack. There are few life lessons based on Bhagavad Gita which could be learned in this connection.

Importance of alert sentry

In this attack, At first militants were trying to sneak through the rear end of the camp where security where security was less. They had brief exchange of fire with sentry (soldier stationed to control access to a place) and later they entered family quarters.

As per Bhagavad Gita our senses are points of entry to all kind of information. And we are supposed to guard these sentry points with our intelligence. If any of the senses is not properly guarded, the input of wrong information & further such desires almost inevitable.

Unprotected mind is easy hideout

Our impure mind is like unprotected hideout which could be easily occupied by unscrupulous lusty desires & impressions as in this case the terrorist used the hideout of residential buildings where guards were taking rest with their families and security was less. Purified mind is always guarded by strong intelligence so that only legitimate occupants of right desires would be allowed to stay in.

Special forces have to be deployed to fight the battle

After fidayeen had take shelter at family quarters at camp and had started the assault, special forces were deployed and in next 24  hours all terrorists were gunned down. We can learn from this that once base desires & thoughts have occupied our mind, we have to take help of saintly association and scriptural injunctions to identify futility of those desires and thoughts nullify their influence by eliminating them altogether.  When the bodies of the terrorists were recovered it was found that they had used combat uniforms like army to enter the camp. Same way our lower desires sometimes take garb of those of useful or non harmful  ones and with the help of higher intelligence their identity has to be ascertained.

 The root of the problem is misidentification.

As few people are in Kashmir are not identifying  with republic of India and have been facilitating terrorists being sympathetic to them. But because this, actually they are planning to miss the benefits what a Indian state could offer to them.

Same way when we forget our identification as Souls, we facilitate our base desires thinking they may help us to enjoy. But in this process we loose out on unlimited spiritual bliss which can come with identifying and acting as per our spiritual identity as servants of God & using our senses in service to God, like seeing His form, eating His remnants and hearing about Him, chanting His names.

The Maya Analytica

 
The Scandal

Recently Cambridge Analytica(CA) firm has come to limelight . It used personal information of millions of people, collected without their consent from facebook for their psychological analysis for politically influencing their choices.

Choice which subjugates
 
Social media platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram etc. offer opportunity for people to have their virtual identity in the digital world. When people choose to be on these platforms, they get under the norms of those platforms.
It reminded me of ‘Maya’- an illusory potency of God as described in the Vedic literature. That potency is used to govern the affairs of this material world -which is temporary and separate from the eternal and ever blissful spiritual world – the abode of God.  The living beings that choose to live independent lives from God are given under norms of Maya to forget about their eternal nature and assume a temporary identity in this world.

A nudge that titillates

The Facebook and Google store every bit of information of a user on their platform, even the lines deleted while typing. They use the information for binding the person to their platform by offering him personalized content of his interest.  This information is also used for nudging the individual with personalized ads which earn huge profit for social media giants.
CA exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what they knew about them and target their inner demons. It built a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box to elect Mr. Trump by targeted facebook advertising.

As per Spiritual understanding the material energy (Maya) binds a living being to this world by offering him various facilities of enjoyment as per the interest of the person. Material energy also constantly nudges or sometimes even exhorts a person to make choices under its influence based on his earlier choices. So although one thinks one is utilizing his freedom, in actuality, he has been constantly nudged to make choices which appear to be his own fully.



Wisdom that liberates
After the fallout of Cambridge Analytica row #deletefacebook went viral. But the data shows, this campaign has not been very successful because people have been much attached to use this platform. So they are continuing even at the fear of jeopardising their freedom.  The suggestion would be to at least sagaciously use the platform to be least affected, by choosing various security options wisely.
The living beings also get attached to the material energy at the cost of losing their freedom at her will. Very few people can make prudent choice of leaving grip of it. What needed is a wisdom & lifestyle, which makes one immune to her negative influences while staying in this world. Then one can experience liberation from her clutches.


 

नयनसुख

सुन्दर मयूरपंख सरपे ,
नीले  , हरे  कपड़ो की पगड़ी इनमे लाल फूल है सजाए
ब्रजराज है आप,
आपकी ताजगी करोडो फूलों को हराए 

नील रंग की अंगूठी
बादलों को सताए ,
कानोंमें मकर कुंडल आगे पीछे लहराए
कलाईयों  में हार और ओंठो पे मंद मुस्कान
भटकते हुए मन के लिए जाल बिछाए