----- Original Message -----

To: My Diary

Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:50 PM

Subject: Eulogy for all casualties

 

Greetings with Love (Rahman) and Light (Rahim) from the One Infinite Creator.

 

As many casualties arise around South-East Asia to even some part of Africa caused by the earthquakes near Sumatra and its deadly tsunamis, I would like to convey "a mass funeral oration" inspired by my letter "Eulogy" sent at the beginning of this month to some e-mail list.  Actually this oration applies to all casualties, in fact to the death of everyone in the world in the past and in the future.   

 

"We're all creatures of God.  We were created according to His image.  We all used to be infinite.  We all used to have all that we can imagine, and even more, we used to have all that we can not imagine.  There were no room for hatred, jealousy, the feeling of superiority, the feeling of inferiority, because we all have all infinitely.  There were no references of what is less and what is more.

 

But now we are all in this finite world and experience the hatred,  the jealousy, the feeling of superiority, the feeling of inferiority.  All the feeling, all the experience that we have not experience before in the infinite world.  Just try to remember that all the experience in this finite world are all that we asked for.  So we can appreciate more the experience that we all have in the infinite worlds.  Sooner or later we all be back in our natural habitat, the infinite worlds.  God is much greater than infinity, He created the infinite worlds.

 

So, for the time being, try to accept all the way they are, try to love all they way they are, may we all rest in peace. Amen."

 

May we always be in peace,

 

Jusuf Achmad.