Paras Ra­moutar

The be­head­ing of a La Ro­maine man needs to be ful­ly ex­am­ined and this calls for every­one to rewrite the script of life, ac­cord­ing to Pun­dit Ramesh Ti­wari, spir­i­tu­al leader of the Ed­in­burgh Hin­du Tem­ple. He told the Sun­day morn­ing ser­vice: "The supreme be­ing did not send any­one with­out a head...He sent them with a whole spir­i­tu­al body and he would not re­ceive one's head with­out the body. "No film di­rec­tor would un­der­take to do a movie with­out ful­ly con­sid­er­ing and re­search­ing the to­tal com­plex­i­ties of a movie," he said.

"Sim­i­lar­ly, each hu­man be­ing must ful­ly con­sid­er his or her life and ad­just to the cir­cum­stances in the so­cial, spir­i­tu­al and moral en­vi­ron­ment. "Fol­low­ing that, one can work on a script of life of to re­deem one­self and grad­u­ate to a life of full­ness, jux­ta­pos­ing to teach­ings of the great re­li­gions of mankind, whether one is a Hin­du, Mus­lim or Chris­t­ian.

"Crime is not the busi­ness of the Gov­ern­ment alone. Crime is every­body's busi­ness and con­cern, and we all must come for­ward to make a serous dent to stop the flow of blood in our streets and homes. This once peace­ful na­tion is now soaked in hu­man blood. "This na­tion can­not pro­ceed any fur­ther with­out the to­tal re­duc­tion in crime. One per­son who los­es his life in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties is one too many.

We have to re­turn to our church, our mosque and our tem­ple. "Our his­to­ry to the world must not be inked in hu­man blood. Rather, it must be writ­ten with­in the perime­ter of our Con­sti­tu­tion that we pro­mote and ad­here to the prin­ci­ples of law, or­der and good gov­er­nance," Ti­wari said. Par­ents have an im­por­tant role to play in teach­ing their chil­dren to pray and to re­turn to ba­sic hu­man val­ues which re­main over gen­er­a­tions, he said.

Ti­wari said he saw the need for all to re­gen­er­ate the process of life, guid­ed by the great scriptwriter, the supreme be­ing.