Gandhiji 's Three Monkeys

Speak no evil

See no evil

Hear no evil

The three monkeys proclaiming this message to the world

are closely associated with Gandhiji

who kept them as a paper weight

on his desk, a gift from

visitors from ( you know where?)

CHINA!

(The Chinese beat us at this one)

The Mahatma illustrated his lessons on

peace, nonviolence and tolerance

with his beloved simians.

Keep yourself away from from evil

by not participating in it.

In today ''s HT newspaper I saw this advertisement

which presents the monkeys in a new avtar.

And rightly so.

When you see someone victimized by evil and corruption

DO SPEAK UP.

Sting operations , media coverage and

citizen protests are making a difference small as it may seem.

Sometimes it can even cost a life.

There was a news story about a young man in Mumbai

who was stabbed to death as he tried to break up a fight

between 2 groups.

18 year old Rukhsana in Kashmir came face to face with three

Islamist terrorists who invaded her humble village abode and held

her family hostage for several hours, a few weeks ago.

Brave Rukhsana who had never handled a gun in her life

overcame a militant and shot him with his AK 47.

She wounded another and the third one escaped.

This courageous young girl did what most of us would be too inept to attempt.

The Bible says;if we know what is right and do not do it

it is sin.

I am reading a book entitled

Who says you change the world ?by Danny Smith.

Smith of JUBILEE CAMPAIGN is an Anglo Indian living in UK.

He set out to help seven persecuted Christians

but soon found himself going undercover to fight

paedophilia,campaigning against oppressive regimes,

rescuing children from the streets and raising money to aid victims

of Saddam Hussein 's poison attacks.

I will encourage you to read this book which reads like a thriller.

Its on Amazon.

We may not be able to make a huge dent.
But we can make a difference one person at a time.

Psalm 1 says

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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As the old hymn says

Keep on the Firing Line