With a deepening heart

The darkness is deepening.

The crisis is almost certainly deepening around us.

And finally, India has had the deepening of its democracy.

While all God's sun lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom.

Europe of and by the people, a Europe, an experiment in deepening and widening democracy beyond borders.

This always seemed to me to be a deepening of the sense of what it means to be a Good Samaritan.

Along with outward development and increase of opportunity, there should be inward development and deepening of our heart connections as well as our outward connections.

But those who believe and do righteous deeds We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide forever. For them therein are purified spouses, and We will admit them to deepening shade.

Our technologies are great gifts, and we, right now, have the great good fortune to be living at a time when digital technology is flourishing, when it is broadening and deepening and becoming more profound all around the world.

But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath, their eternal home Therein shall they have companions pure and holy We shall admit them to shades, cool and ever deepening.

And for a moment I was wondering, are we going to live in order to see real change happening on the ground, a change that does not come through foreign intervention, through the misery of occupation, through nations invading our land and deepening the sense of inferiority sometimes?

But those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism) and do deeds of righteousness, We shall admit them to Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise), abiding therein forever. Therein they shall have Azwajun Mutahharatun purified mates or wives (having no menses, stools, urine, etc.) and We shall admit them to shades wide and ever deepening (Paradise).

I believe these six factors the rise of the notion of population as human capital, the rise of Indian entrepreneurs, the rise of English as a language of aspiration, technology as something empowering, globalization as a positive factor, and the deepening of democracy has contributed to why India is today growing at rates it has never seen before.