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Elections – what they mean
to me
As expected, next year, Sri Lankans have
the opportunity to again elect their President.
One Tamil lady choosing the life of leisure said ‘What does it matter to us whether Rama rules or Ravana rules?’ [Rama
= the Divine King; Ravana = the
Animalistic/Asura king (Chapter
10 Naan Australian for Devas & Asuras)]. This lady could not identify the connection
between the outcome in Sri Lanka and her own current life here in Australia. To
me the outcomes in Sri Lanka would influence the shape and form of my work as a
global citizen of Sri Lankan origin.
This week, the following report was
highlighted in relation to Buddhism in Sri Lankan Politics:
“A ceremony that was due to
take place in front of Ranaviru Seya in Anuradhapura with the participation of
the president yesterday (16) was one chaotic scene after Capt. Silva of the
Navy stumbled, fell down and dropped the casket containing the sacred relics to
the floor, as it was being taken there, reports say.
Capt.
Silva walked cautiously with the casket, but one foot got entangled with an
electricity wire, causing the mishap. After the casket fell to the floor and
broke into pieces, the sacred relics went missing. The incident occurred as the
president was on his way to the place.
Greatly
alarmed, the organizers informed the bodyguards of the president not to come
there. Accordingly, the president’s visit to Ranaviru Seya was cancelled.
A
Nayaka Thera who is a resident at Atamasthana said the Ranaviru Seya, built in
addition to the Atamasthana (nine historical places of worship), has led to
many incidents of bad luck and calamities. The incident makes this fact
clearer, said the Thera, warning that this could be a bad omen for the country”
One senior Diaspora member wrote during
discussions in relation to the above:
[Astrology
treats and relieves the mind. This is a physical unavoidable occurrence In
Sinhala it is called “Akaala”]
I responded as follows:
[To
me every manifestation has a reason and that reason can be changed and
therefore is no longer ‘unavoidable’ by the seer. Some seem like ‘accidents’ –
meaning – they are merely surface manifestations – the total being equal to the sum of the individual components.
The
three levels of manifestations are: (1) those that can be controlled at
the physical level (2) those that can be influenced through knowledge (3) the
Truth that is natural to us and yet beyond our control – physical or mental. We
call the 3rd dimension ‘fate’. But fate keeps changing as we take our
work to ‘service’ level or ‘give up’.
In
this instance (1) above could not have been the case because of the
deeper faith by the previous custodians of the sacred relic and those who
carried the casket. If the event was ‘calculated’ through political
motivation - then the President and the Government have a responsibility
to work out the cause. If it were (3) – then the monk ought to have
sensed it. If he were truly spiritual – he would have prayed to
prevent such manifestations at that time at that place where he also had
leadership responsibility. One of my clients has given me a good example
of this one. The failure rate in her class was high. When asked for her
opinion she gave her supervisor the most
obvious reason ‘because of poor attendance’. The monk used
his language and instead of saying it was a mere accident – he said it was a
bad omen – which has the effect of putting
fear in the minds of those opposed
to his group and also of shifting the blame / responsibility to an outside
source. In light of the rift between JHU and SLFP – one needs to
consciously seek whether it was orchestrated to render greater importance
to the monks.] Note: JHU – Political Party of the Buddhist
Clergy; SLFP – Political Party of the
President.
The next election outcomes in Sri Lanka
would also be determined through the combination of forces at the above three
levels.
(1) The Seen & the
Heard
Those who live at the
surface level would try to influence at the last minute if they are active or
where they are passive (due to
indifference or because they cannot afford politics) – would become the media
through whom activists would manifest their outcomes. The rest of the work
would have already happened by now.
(2) The Known
Those who have been using
the Administrative path to mark the government right or wrong – as per their
independent interpretation of the laws, principles and common values – (expected
to be known by the government as well as the citizen) – would have been
continuously educating the voters in their respective environments. To the
extent they used wider measures – especially global measures – they earn
membership with that wider group.
Citizens of Sri Lanka who have been so educated through themselves as
well as others – are the media through whom Sri Lanka’s Administrative Service
is naturally influenced at local as well as global levels. They determine the global status Sri Lankans
have with real global citizens – with or without official portfolios. Their influence on election outcomes, to a
large extent has already happened.
Sometimes – the manifestation of this power is delayed due to lack of
medium / candidate.
The path through which messages
are delivered from that Natural Basket would match the status loss experienced
by the victim as per her/his own level of investment. The more independent they
are the more their submission to this Natural Basket.
1999
In Australia – I
contributed strongly to this power through my actions using the common measure
of Racial Discrimination Act 1975
sacrificing my earned status and opportunities to take legal action. Sharing
that experience dynamically – including through pain of punishments ( including
through prison sentence as a criminal and judgments that I was mentally ill)
- was the ‘educational process’ which
started in 1999 when I wrote to Mr. Howard, warning about bloodbath – similar
to the ones in Sri Lanka. One who is common to both nations would feel the risk
intuitively. The education happened not through my alleged equal opportunity to
access authority to allocate rights and wrongs – but by showing the connection
between cause and effect as and when I found the connection – as I am doing
through this article also.
By escalating the
problem/conflict to the Federal Government level through Due Process – I
escalated to Prime Ministerial level, the value of every stroke of work I did
with genuine commitment to uphold the law as per my interpretation to the law. The
benefits denied at that workplace became credits when I followed Due
Administrative Process right to the top. Once we do this, there is nothing left
to react at the lower level. To me
this is the value that would prevent rebellion through low level reaction using
arms to balance the powers – as LTTE did and as 9/11 attackers did. I continued
to interpret at that higher level and therefore could identify with
manifestations of Administrative wrongs of the Howard Government – through the path
regulated by Racial Discrimination Act. I declined lower level settlement offered by
the NSW Police, because to me by this time it was too little too late. As a
result – the compensation happened through global facilities. They continue to
happen.
2001
Mr. Beazley was my
preferred candidate as Prime Minister through the 2001 elections and I wanted
him to win those elections. Later I felt that there was not enough depth to my
investment in global issues to influence such a manifestation by filling the
marginal ‘gap’.
2004
Mr. Howard did win the
2004 elections but his electorate of Bennelong became a marginal seat. But in
the same year – the American trained Vice Chancellor of the University of New South Wales who was quick to use the
Police to arrest me unlawfully – lost his position and it was described as
being due to the Bruce Hall matter surfaced by migrant students and staff. There
was no direct Administrative link shown. To me – (1) when we have duty –
through benefits enjoyed as per our position – and (2) someone suffers due to
negligence of such duties – and (3) they are Administrative challenges being left in the
‘too hard basket’ - they – the matters naturally
migrate into Nature’s huge ‘Universal Basket Without Borders’ – turning into
negative karma/debit when the other side
is genuine in their pain. Where the other side is not genuine but is working
largely for money or lower level returns – the path ceases at the human level or lower.
Once in the Universal
Basket – the value would ‘wait’ for the right medium in the environment of the
one who had the duty as per her/his position but neglected it – to come along. Truth
when manifested would have two opposite sides – as in Balance Sheets. The
combined forces of the investment by the
opponent, in Administration and Natural
Forces of Truth and Humanity would have
needed to be stronger than the officer with high portfolio, to manifest
a defeat for the latter. In 2004 the Labor candidate of Bennelong lacked the
Administrative investment.
The combination of political and administrative powers in the
Natural Basket were not high enough to defeat Mr. Howard in 2004 – not only due
to the same political opposition at the local electorate as it was in 2001 - but
also due to Mr. Mark Latham being a weak
opposition in Administration. Mr. Mark Latham was highly emotionally driven
which weakens administration. The manifestation of Truth would be such that it
must satisfy investors in Truth from all angles.
2007
Ms Maxine McKew who worked
with Public issues as a Journalist at ABC – was fielded as the candidate
against Mr. Howard in 2007. In addition,
if Ms McKew had felt gender based discrimination in her life as Australian after
it became unlawful in Australia, but was not compensated for it, her power as representative of the Public
would have gone into the Natural / Universal Basket/ Clearing House. In
addition Mr. Kevin Rudd was strong in management of global resources and hence
the combination manifested the defeat of Mr. Howard. The loss of his seat to a
minority power happened due to the damage he caused to the belief of migrants.
Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan parallel of
that was the defeat of Mrs. Banadaranaike in 1977 when Mr. Appapillai
Amirthalingam – a Tamil - became the
Leader of the Opposition. He resigned in 1983 because by then his investment in
Administration was not enough to educate Tamils and prevent lower level
expressions of opposition. In contrast –
Mr. G.G.Ponnambalam Q.C. carried very strong Administrative credits through his
high level practice of Law. The essence of his investment was delivered through
a 50:50 demand – which I interpret as Devolution with Equal rights as
majority. 50:50 is called Equal
Opportunity in Democratic systems. A strong Administrator would accumulate this
credit.
(3)
The Hon Philip Ruddock & the Hon John Alexander - http://austms.blogspot.com.au/2014_10_01_archive.html
Mr. Ruddock as Minister
for Immigration, to my mind did not make
much of a contribution to strengthening
Administration through this portfolio.
But as Attorney General when I made inquiries he did respond regularly
and comprehensively. In addition – he is accessible to migrants in his
electorate. He did not therefore lose his seat.
In terms of Bennelong –
Mr. John Alexander carries with the People parallel power as Mr. Ruddock much
more than the younger migrant Australian who replaced Ms Maxine McKew at the
party level. Most of the migrants known to me from that electorate are well
educated folks investing in Administration and Management rather than in
business. Hence Mr. John Alexander fits that electorate much more than a young
business oriented migrant.
Dr. Gamani Goonetilleke
To me, it was no coincidence
that I met both these gentlemen through the Sri Lankan Reconciliation function
organized by Dr. Gamani Goonetilleke – a fellow migrant from Sri Lanka. Dr.
Gamani Goonetilleke as the head of the organizing committee allocated to me the
task of reading out the message from the President of Sri Lanka. Like Ms Maxine
McKew – Dr. Gamani Goonetilleke had the right combination of Natural
Administrative and Political powers in the Sri Lankan Diaspora. It was also no
coincidence that my contribution to the above forum was made largely in the
suburb of Epping – where most of the voters of Bennelong known to me reside.
Such belief based work generates the
real powers of the Land and influences the People to whom that Land is ‘home’.
3.
Felt Powers of Sovereignty
Beyond the above two levels of the seen and
the known, is the power of self-governance/sovereignty. Rukshan Perera clearly identifies the three
components in his introduction to ‘Bless Our Land Sri Lanka’ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DsvBZUi0G5Y
as follows: We need blessings from the Sri Lankans; We need blessings from the
International Community; We need the blessings also from Above.
A candidate with strongest combination of
accumulated reserves in Politics & Administration would invoke those
blessings from above. Each one of us contributes naturally to the candidate who
invokes the powers of completion within us. Such completion is necessary to
maintain our Sovereignty – as rendered by God.
Membership to this Natural voting system is
earned through everyday living – as in superannuation. At the other end is,
Physical level voting representing visible benefits. If majority voters in Sri Lanka are lacking
in the ‘superannuation’ contribution – they would elect a government dependent
on its citizens – as old age parents depend on their children. Members of the
Diaspora who neglect their duties as global citizens but indulge in
‘entertainment gossip’ through Sri Lankan politics – would add to the negative
energies that would keep pulling Sri Lanka (including Tamils) down in its global standards. Every investor
in Sri Lanka who during this period practices self-governance consciously and/or
naturally – would contribute to
elevating the status of Sri Lanka and all Communities making up Sri Lanka in
the minds of all investors.
By voting Naturally/Mentally through our credits with the Universal system we would feel that we are being
Governed by Rama. By neglecting to vote
mentally but choosing to criticize one side or the other or voting through our debits (debts to other Lankans) – we
would feel that we are being ruled by Ravana, in Sri Lankan issues.
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam – 21 November 2014
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