Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam – 08 January 2016
The Ultimate Judgment is by the Self
Today is the birthday of our lawyer cousin
Anandakrishnan of Malaysia. Cousin Ananda’s most favorite saying was ‘As you
sow, so shall you reap’. I thought of our cousin even as I read the Island
editorial ‘Justitia cringing in horror’. The opening paragraph goes as follows:
[It
is with trepidation that ordinary people always visit courts of law. For, even
a yawn in those places is considered contempt of court which carries severe
punishment. A man was sentenced to eight months in jail for yawning in a court
the other day. Policemen pounce on those who ever so much as scratch their
heads in a courtroom. That’s how the dignity of the judiciary is persevered!]
If this did happen – then the former Chief
Justice actually dismissed herself. The law is the measure for Legal
Administration. Not the opinion of the person in the judge’s chair. Every neglected judgment such as the above –
accumulates interest until it is fat enough to punish the person at the top who
has the ultimate responsibility to the Public. I dedicated a whole chapter of
my book Naan Australian – published by Lake House group – towards addressing
this kind of disorder at Mallakam Courts in Northern Sri Lanka. At Policy level
as at voting level – we need only one side to be validly heard. At Policy level
– we need to be both sides representing the whole. The law makers and administrators
may not read my work – but the Energy added by me would remain in waiting to
support someone like me in need. THAT I am sure of, because I myself have had
the experience of such support. Every Nation that recognizes at the top level –
the value of religion or God – has the moral duty to hear and include such
experiences in their law making. That is the primary duty of elected members of
Parliament. Neglected responsibility goes into ‘automatic’ mode once the body
of the matter deteriorates due to time and/or place changes. The surface memory
based on the seen and the heard – deteriorates with time. Only the memory that
is written through discriminating thinking and/or out of faith in a higher
mind, lasts to support us beyond its physical existence. Within the Sri Lankan
media – the Island is also one such accumulator of negligence karma.
The Island has been getting my emails
regularly and is yet to publish even one of my articles. The Daily News
published my work twice – both in relation to legal personalities – the first
one of Sinhalese origin and the next one of Tamil origin. I concluded that the
Daily News was more close to its soul than any other official medium in my
email list. Given that I do not know anyone personally at the Daily News, I conclude
that my work was picked up by someone true to her/his job. THAT is the law of
Nature. The Island Editor states:
[The Bar Association of Sri Lanka
has led pro-democracy campaigns from the front and fearlessly taken on
oppressive governments to protect judicial independence and tame arrogant
political leaders who thought no end of themselves. It courageously took up the
cudgels for Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake when she was wrongfully
impeached. It has recently called for action against those who set upon the
Meethotamulla protesters.]
The independence of any group – including
the Judiciary is tested by its service to the Common Public. Just today our
staff gave me positive feedback about the officer of the Pradeshiya Sabai who
was disciplined by me for him acting without authority. In that judgment I was
the judge and today I had feedback that the recipient had accepted my judgment
in a positive manner. To my mind, that meant that the report I produced – had
traveled through the network – with the final stage going towards empowering the
new Constitution being written by the officer concerned for his part of the
National Law & Order machine. That is how the circle of self-governance is
completed. The communication from me might have been read and used by some
higher official without attributing due credit to me. But the outcome was read
by me as if I had delivered my own judgment.
At the same time, a lady citizen of
Vaddukoddai said to me words to the effect ‘why are you spending more and more
money without enough income to recover your investment?’ I smiled and said the
outcome was confirmed yet again to be at policy level. As per that lady’s mind
structure – donations to temples is worthy – especially when the donor is
allocated high status in common gathering. The lady could not ‘see’ such
parallel value in my case. As per the principles of Democracy – I accept Equal
status from a person who never had to work outside her home for a living. Our
common measures are home-making activities. She herself has been praising the
quality of Rotti/Chappathi (Sri Lankan bread of Indian origin) made by
me. To me that was endorsement in action of my policy to demonstrate Equality
to the person of highest status in a particular issue at that place. The rest,
I realize now – accumulates as motivating Energy.
Last evening I opened the mail of Mr.
Ramanathan of Senior citizens in Sydney. To my mind, the work I was doing here
in Vaddukoddai when they were celebrating their life – was at least of Equal
value. Had I been active in Sydney I would not have accumulated this level of
motivational Energy to come to Vaddukoddai where there is a deeper need. I
believe I am capable of developing Common structures that would keep the
connections between the Diaspora and the Local folks going beyond my
generation. That is the Heritage value I share beyond cultural and generational
borders. It cannot be measured through money profits.
Recently, Sri Lankan law experts accused me
of being defamatory when I criticized them. All
lawyers concerned have chosen to
remain silent – even privately when my opposition in two matters – one in
Colombo and the other in Mallakam - brought out that my current marriage was my
second marriage. That is cheap and yet it was not opposed by my side lawyers. In
the Colombo matter where I am the primary litigant – I stopped the other side
lawyer from going round and round the bush – as if he had discovered a secret
about me. In the Mallakam matter in Northern Sri Lanka, where my husband is the
primary litigant - when I stepped down after giving evidence, I disciplined
both lawyers and there – as a law abiding litigant who has upheld at all times
the value of marriage – legally as well as culturally – I was the Judge
punishing them through my Truth. The Judge publicly punished me – as if I was a
street woman. That would have returned the pain I felt in that part of Sri
Lanka where I was / am working towards better life for women headed families –
exponentially to the Courts – through the Judge’s position. It takes only a
truly believing litigant to reverse the karma on the erring legal system.
If the Sri Lankan media had invested in law
and order in areas where it had ‘freedom to judge’ – however tiny that space
might have seemed - politicians and the judiciary would have become more aware
of the media-watchdog and Sri Lankan media would have done what Channel 4 did
in relation to war crimes. The reason
for this is the consolidated power of minds of those who discovered the Truth
through Research and shared their work without expecting material returns – of
money and status. No genuine contributor to Truth is ever alone. That is the
Law of Truth/Love/God. Such person in current environment would invoke the
erring side to punish themselves through the fear of their Truth. Ultimately we
live with our mind and to the extent we relied on our own ability to discipline
ourselves – we would punish ourselves before anyone else does. If someone
punishes us after that – we return that accusation to them. That is the Divine
power within each and every one of us.
As a Community – we share this power to influence manifestations at the
time and place of need - which is our
home. I believe that it was no coincidence that I was present and focused on
the issue when the LTTE leadership came to an end in 2009; later when
the Rajapaksa regime was dethroned and now then the new Constitution is
developing. The basis of the natural Constitution of any place is the Truth
discovered by the People of an area about themselves – so each group would take
its place relative to the other. By including me as a person of Vaddukoddai I
am shaping the actual constitution that Vaddukoddai folks beyond generations,
would be able to work to experience ownership in this part of the world. That
upholds the consolidated value of Tamil leadership – in self-governance. Lord
Krishna shared with us the Bhagawath Geetha through Prince Arjuna who believed
in Krishna. The place was the battlefield where Prince Arjuna had to rise above
personal likes and dislikes to do his duty as per his allocated position. It
was NOT a room in the king’s court which had failed in its duty to earn its
status as the highest institution. If the Sri Lankan Judiciary had upheld its
Equal position as the Executive – it would have saved Sri Lankans from the
damages of war. Likewise the Judiciary of western countries would have
prevented the war declared by Muslim rebels had they actually practiced Equal
Opportunity principles. Sri Lankan Courts punishing citizens for yawning is in
breach of the Doctrine of Separation of Powers – for it is part of the duties
of the Executive Government. Patting ourselves on the back that we criticized
and punished the former Executive for dismissing the then Chief Justice is
confirmation of hallucination – that hearsay memory becomes with age. An
institution that fails to keep within its allocated position at primary level
does not have the root to uphold such high principles at the top level. In the
case of Chief Justice – the Truth manifested itself when the two powers became
Equally low in status.
The Judiciary habitually crosses the border
to exceed its powers over the litigant. As Cousin Anandakrishnan would have
said – the Judiciary reaped as it sowed.
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