WHAT TO DO, IF CAUGHT IN A HIJACK
Aeroplane-travel has become
extremely hazardous during the last few decades and the dangers do not seem to
be lessening, but, on the other hand multiplying in recent times. On boarding a
plane, you cannot be certain that you would be able to disembark in your
destination as printed on the ticket. You may find yourself abandoned in some
faraway country to which the aircraft had been directed by a handful of
terrorists who were your co-passengers. Then follows a sickeningly-familiar
pattern of the Government of your mother-country holding negotiations with the
hijackers and ultimately capitulating to their demands including release from
jail of their colleagues and assurance of safe-conduct to their own country
where they would hatch further plots, having tasted blood.
A
rescue-plane brings you back, worn-out and dishevelled; and who is to
recompense you for the trauma you would carry on your psyche for life?
No
solution is in sight to this serious problem; and as for our religious leaders
of all hues, they are tongue-tied and looking the other way. They have their
own security to bother about and it is a case of each one for himself and the
devil take the hindmost.
Having
said this much, I should also tell you how to manage the crisis if you are
among the passengers in a hijacked plane. First and foremost, remember what I
have told you a number of times that your individual life-span has been
unalterably fixed at the point of the embryo-formation itself. While so, no hijacker
can deprive you of your life until the appointed time comes. This conviction
should put courage in your heart; and then you go to step two. Develop the
thought intensely that those around you should overcome their fear and become
peaceful bit by bit. Since you are now a centre of peace, the effect of this sankalpam
would be experienced in an unmistakable manner, which process may take a
few hours. Now place the thought, ‘We, the innocent passengers, have no dispute
with the terrorists who should settle their demands with the Government. Let
them not harm us in any way’. In this step, the hijackers are also drawn into
your circle of peace and without their realising it, they would be softened and
be inclined to scale down their demands, leading to an eventual resolution of
the problem.
The
strategy I have given out may sound simple but it is very potent. In any case,
it would lift your mind from helplessness to commence with. Instead of reacting
to the hijackers you are acting on them and would not that itself be a distinct
gain, a silver lining, in fact, of the dark cloud of despair?
---Sage
TGN
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Message: SUBRAMANIA BHARATI’S WORD OF POWER)