Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
04
January 2019
What
is Lord Buddha saying about the Lankan Constitution?
My friend Harry de Sayrah also shared with me his
appreciation of the life of Dr Ravi
Perumalpillai, Oxford surgeon who became a Jaffna farmer. I ask myself as to
which would the best way to value my own life? The response from within was ‘Higher
Education followed by Professional ethics’. I value Dr Ravi Perumalpillai not because he became a
farmer but because he became accessible to those seeking to invest in higher
education and professional ethics. Higher education helped me think at the
common level and use common measures to develop family and contribute to
reliable institutions. Professional ethnics helped me attribute credit to the
appropriate source that disciplined me to not take credit for others work and
therefore share in common, family and institutional values.
My parallel of Dr
Ravi Perumalpillai’s hobby of farming,
is our family temple in Thunaivi. As per the article by Jekhan Aruliah ‘Ravi
had created the Oxonian Heart Foundation to bring cardiac surgery to North and
East Sri Lanka.’ The Trustees of Oxonian Heart Foundation are listed as
follows:
Our Trustees
(Chairman)
(Secretary)
(Treasurer)
The above group is very much Sri
Lankan, headed by Tamil – confirming higher commonness through institutional
values. The parallel of that is our Australian Tamil Management Service headed
by myself with Mr Nishantha Patabendige of Sinhalese origin as corporate
secretary. That is the heritage I developed through global life.
Recently, I said to my son that I
expected his children to attribute credit to me to the extent they felt
supported by me. I said otherwise he – my son would take credit and his
children would take credit. My son promptly said that he did not take credit. I
agreed that he did not take credit – but said that this sometimes led to others
taking credit for his work. Paying our respects to my elders / seniors has been
my natural pathway. I did, from time to
time upset some of my seniors – starting with my parents – but that was always
on the basis of my own Truth. This often happened when the cultural pathways
became unreliable and therefore failed to return the value of my work. From
then on, my Truth was my guide and I believe that this is what sustained me
beyond my local borders – in wider world. This is the heritage I share with my
family and multicultural democratic community.
To the extent I respected elders,
I expect to be respected by my juniors. Those who fail to do so become equals
and have to ‘show’ independent outcomes in order to be included in the facilities I provide. This is necessary to develop family and
institutional structures. Where I do not get the respect nor the output and I believe that my presence is important to the other person/s
involved – I am there taking my position as per my Truth. When this is blocked
I keep my distance but am still available – should the other side need me. When
all else fails, I pray – so I would not feel let down. My Truth never lets me
down. Praying clears my mind and helps me focus on my Truth. I then know that my
investment is being taken care of.
I expect any government to which
I have added my Truth/ Energy – also to do likewise. Kelum Bandara of Daily
mirror reports in regards to development of the Sri Lankan Constitution :
[The
government has decided to resume the Constitution-making process which had been
at a standstill for a while as a result of the recent political crisis and
prorogation of parliament. ]
The political crisis was part of
the Constitution-Development. It showed large variances between Budget and
Actuals – Theory and Practice of the Constitution by its own makers. Some
factors were seasonal due to heightened emotions and others are more or less
permanent. The latter needs believers to
negate its negativity – just as Paava / debilitated Planets in the horoscope
need Pariharam / compensation to offset that which has gone past its correct-by
environment.
A balanced and reliable
constitution would start with zero
advantage and finish with absolute value of that theory to the practitioner. The
current Sri Lankan constitution’s
structural value starts with status advantage to the Buddhist and if practiced genuinely
would show disadvantage to the Buddhist. Truth, like the sun, never fails in
its duty. Non-Buddhists who genuinely practiced the law – would end up with identical
degree of advantage at the time the Buddhist experiences disadvantage. If one
does not correct oneself within an
environment of Equality, one starts experiencing the return of the advantage as
disadvantage. That is what happened with
the TNA led by Mr Sampanthan who identified with his own Truth and the Truth of
those who practiced the laws of democracy and shared that value with Sri Lankan
Tamils.
The Buddhist tenets would naturally combine forces to excite or
depress non-practitioners who take advantage of Buddhism status. This is called
‘thanakkhe sooniyam vaikirathu’ / ‘practicing black magic on own-self’. Those
who introduced ‘Buddhism foremost’ clause in the Sri Lankan Constitution and those who failed to balance the apparent
advantage despite the opportunities – are actually cursing/damaging themselves.
This is the warning they got from Lord Buddha. Those who seek religious
advantage should renounce Democracy to uphold their Truth. THAT is what Lord Buddha
would have said if the developers had asked Lord Buddha representing their inner Truth.
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