Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam
30 April 2017
Earning the Right to Higher Education
I was referred to the above article this
morning. Hours later I was referred to the article ‘Indian guru's hoarded riches raise doubts over charitable works’ by
The Telegraph. To me, this communication also reaching me was no coincidence.
It was just yesterday that I was saying to one of my Airlanka heirs – that I have not read the book Bhagavad Gita, presented to me by my
father-in-law but that I have read Gita Vahini – Swami Sathya Sai Baba’s
teachings in a language understood by my
generation. I read it during my traumatic experience at an institution
of Higher Education – the University of NSW. The essence of the events that
happened back then, during Lord Krishna’s time, are brought to us in their
current form through Gita Vahini. My Airlanka heir shared with me many parts of
a program by Ms Anoja Weerasinghe – Sri Lankan yoga teacher who earned her
popularity through her acting career. I was happy to note that Sri Lankan
Airlines management was identifying with the need to boost the self-esteem of
employees through such courses.
Two core messages that I identified with
were:
(1)
Our physical ailments were not
merely physical but were strongly influenced by the mind, as per our traumatic
experiences
(2)
Eventually the person we
see through others, is ourselves.
This morning’s communications confirmed
both of the above messages.
Professor Gunawardane states:
When I Google-searched with the intent of
finding Professor Gunawardane’s contact details, I came across list of staff
members of a section of Peradeniya University and all of them had ‘foreign’
higher educational qualifications. Hence one could conclude that University
education in Sri Lanka has significant component of ‘foreign’ minds influencing the students.
Swami Sathya Sai Baba with no such formal
qualifications established a University, in addition to other Public Facilities
of high standards. Each one of us would read such a person as per our own
nature. To the author of the above article – the most visible part of Swami’s
value was the money wealth. But as per my own experience at the University of
NSW where I could not identify with the label allocated to me by those so
called pundits, Swami came to confirm that He recognized my contribution to
Intellectual Independence.
As per the Telegraph Article:
[The Trust decided to open the rooms, but
with caution: the police were kept at a distance and the media were locked out.
A select group assembled, including the controversial figure of Satyajit, Sai Baba’s
carer, apparently the only person who could penetrate the chambers’ elaborate
security. They took the lift to the first floor, opened the door and stepped
inside.
What they found made even the wildest rumours seem
tame: stacked around the room were piles of gold, diamonds and cash. Cashiers
with counting machines were summoned and reported that the haul included £1.6
million in rupees, 98 kg of gold and 307 kg of silver. (No figure was provided
for the diamonds.)
The Trust denied any previous knowledge of the hoard,
said it had immediately paid tax on its value, and denied any impropriety. …………………..
The revelations have tested the faith of even the
staunchest devotees, said a former member of Sai Baba’s security and
intelligence wing. “News is constantly trickling in from Puttaparthi that Sai
Baba devotees have been shaken by the huge haul of wealth as well as big cash
seizures in the following days,” he said. “Many Sai Baba devotees I know, real
hard-core devotees that is, are not even attempting to defend or deny the gold,
cash hauls, and are in a complete state of confusion.
“Some blame trust members, while a few are asking,
'Why did Swami have to keep so much gold and cash? Didn’t Swami always say he
never accepted gifts?’ Who to believe or what to believe?”
Even Sai Baba’s most vociferous critics are taken
aback by speed with which the empire is unravelling. “Even a couple of months
ago, what has now happened was still unimaginable,” said Robert Priddy, the Sai
Baba organisation’s former Norwegian leader.
Mr Priddy was once a believer but lost his faith as
the allegations of sexual abuse which dogged Sai Baba’s final decades began to
mount - though not before himself donating a total of £13,500. ]
As reported to have been stated by Ms Anoja
Weerasinghe during training of Sri Lankan Airlines mind, Mr. Priddy was seeing
his own weaknesses through the money he ‘donated’ as being part of the hoard.
One of the few recorded events of Swami I watched also recorded huge donations
being made during a public event. Unlike Mr. Priddy, I noted that Swami was
auctioning off the gold to someone – from Japan, as I recall it. They were not
taken into Swami’s Treasury. Hence when an older Australian Tamil devotee said
to me after the above details were published – that Swami ought to have gotten
rid of them – I said – words to the effect that if Swami had done that the
recipient would have received the weaknesses that the money represented. I became a true believer not as per rituals
but as per my own Experience during my time of need. I said to the above lady – a victim of Sri
Lankan political war – hijacked by the LTTE – that Lord Thirupathi also is the ‘person’
to whom the richest of the rich in India donate and the Thirupathi coffers also
would include similar level. Does that mean that Lord Balaji was a cheat or do
we ever worry about such accusations?
After my direct experience, when I read
some of Swami’s discourses to students, I did not identify with a few of Swami
messages. One was that the mind that cooked the meal came with the food. But I
did not reject it or doubt its validity. Now after independent observations
through my own experiences and those close to me – especially in Sri Lanka, I realize
that Common Belief cured the food cooked by another of weaknesses including in
terms of hygiene of the cook. Living as part of Toddy Tapper community I would
have become a victim of food poisoning if not for that Common Belief. I observed also that those who abused the
Caste system have acquired the weaknesses of
the other side as part of the return. As highlighted by Ms Anoja
Weerasinghe – the mind underpins the experience. Food cooked by one consumed by
another of Common Belief / Faith would not hurt the consumer any more than if
the cook her/himself had eaten it. Knowledge of this is an important criterion in deciding on the level of external higher education
expenditure/investment by a society. Swami consciously moved away from His
biological family once Swami openly served the Public. From then on, members of
the family became part of the Public and
Swami set this much needed example in this part of the world – especially in
Sri Lanka where children come with the parents into Public life without going
through such separation.
As in the case of all our relationships,
starting with our parents, my experience
of Swami’s support was due to a
combination of Belief and Merit. To the extent Swami helped me identify with my
deservedness to Divine blessings – even though I was then NOT a devotee of His,
that experience was Belief based. When it is Belief based – we do not seek
evidence nor logic. Belief when expressed without pollution would show perfect
logic. Once we look for evidence we
confirm that we are outside the boundaries of Common Belief. Eventually,
through my University experience which led to strengthening my Intellectual
Independence, I had the courage to sue
the Hon John Howard – despite the knowledge that I was likely to ‘lose’ in
Judicial Court of Humans. But later I realized that I was promoted to the
Natural Higher level - where our genuine
work becomes Energy. It’s this Energy that motivates us to protect our Natural
Sovereignty. One so protected is never alone and never loses to her/himself.
I appreciated more than ever before that
one did not need formal education to have wisdom to live as per one’s true
deservedness of ‘freedom’ / independence. Let’s for example look at the
expressions by a highly qualified Sri Lankan who represented Sri Lanka at UN
level:
[Dr.
Palitha Tikiri Bandara Kohona considers that former United Nations Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon was always available for him to discuss Sri Lanka's burning
issues, especially those involving the LTTE and the Tamil Diaspora. Ban Ki-moon
was ready to listen and more than willing to offer advice which he faithfully
conveyed to Colombo.
"That
was one of the most difficult times for Sri Lanka at the UN with the LTTE and
the Tamil Diaspora, the US, the UK and Canada, all exerting enormous pressure
on the UN on accountability, alleged war crimes and Human Rights violations in
Sri Lanka and I had to use all the influence I could muster to counter all that
malicious propaganda. Most of it based on spurious unsubstantiated
allegations," Dr. Kohona told Ceylon Today in an interview.
"Ban
Ki-moon always lent a sympathetic ear to me", he said.]
With his PhD, one would expect Dr. Kohona
to have developed the higher common mind at least in his work related
interactions. One who highlights the personal attention to a single individual
by one who holds the highest common position in an institution (the UN in this
instance) fails to demonstrate ‘Commonness’ achieved through higher mind. It is this higher mind that is
capable of inclusive thinking of all concerned. Where the ‘other side’ – LTTE
in this instance – is known to be not capable of this for whatever reason, a
true believer would come down to the level of the opposition to complete the
experience for all concerned – in this instance ALL Sri Lankans including the
LTTE.
As per the article ‘BAN KI-MOON ALWAYS LENT A SYMPATHETIC EAR TO ME – Kohona’ Dr.
Kohona reported that:
[It
was with the greatest reluctance that the LTTE was made to admit that it was
recruiting children for combat purposes, which by itself was a war crime and a
crime against humanity.
The
LTTE was also told by the government that they must stop bombing civilians and
civilian installations and that the recruitment of children should be stopped.
The LTTE refused to accede to those requests by the government, Dr. Kohona
noted.
He
also stressed that the peace facilitator, Norway, also had the audacity to ask
the government to allow the LTTE to come to the negotiating table as an equal party which the government had
flatly refused to accept.
"This
was also a major drawback to the negotiations as the LTTE, which was a banned
terrorist organization, wanted to be treated as an equal to a democratically
elected government, he said.]
If LTTE are NOT Sri Lankans in the mind of
Dr. Kohona – and the LTTE had the responsibility to abide by UN principles –
then LTTE is taken to be as sovereign as Sri Lanka represented by Dr. Kohona.
If LTTE were considered Sri Lankans by Dr. Kohona, then they were the
responsibility of the Sri Lankan government and did not owe any responsibility
to account to the UN for their actions – including recruitment of children. To
the extent the children defended the land that was home to them – only those of
Common Belief had authority over them – and this includes their respective
religious leaders. The way Dr. Kohona’s mind seems to have worked shows no
Common order – either as per belief or as per merit. One could conclude
therefore that Dr. Kohona infected the UN with the weaknesses that influenced
the Sri Lankan Government to bring the
LTTE issue to the UN.
In his article ‘Ranil’s Indianization project and the new constitution’ the other
pundit who claims to have influenced UN mind to become more like his, Dr. Dayan
Jayatilleke reveals as follows:
What was common to all of Sri
Lanka’s leaders was to rightly regard as the worst case scenario, a nexus
between India, Tamil nadu and Sri Lanka’s Tamil North.
The LTTE that was orphaned by the Sri
Lankan Government, was ‘included’ by India. The Indian Government might have
been selfish but Indians in Common are linked to Tamils through culture than
are Sinhalese who claim that they are unique. Not even Lord Buddha is
recognized as Indian by these Buddhist politicians driven by ‘attachment’ to
the physical. A leader of higher mind would have ‘included Tamils’ and
confirmed the Sovereignty of the whole of Sri Lanka. These leaders – including those
who empowered Dr. Jayatilleke to go to the UN – ‘feared’ their own weaknesses /
desires which blocked their mind from including the higher Tamil mind as part
of themselves to Govern in Common. One of the moves was to deny merit based entry to the University which naturally
blocked the Administrative pathway to self-governance by the more educated
Tamil. Tamil minds including that of the
Northern Chief Minister the Hon C.V.Wigneswaran have already merged with Indian
minds and the moves by the Sri Lankan Prime Minister merely confirms this
reality.
If managed with wisdom, these outer
confirmations would open more leadership opportunities to Sri Lankans at
Regional level. But those with ‘sour grape’ attitude would alienate themselves
from these true manifestations of ‘Freedom’.
If indeed – Dr. Kohona expected the LTTE to
abide by the International rules of war, then Dr. Kohona automatically relieves
the LTTE of the Terrorism charges and therefore the two sides have Equal Start with zero prior advantage. By
rejecting the Equal status allocated to the LTTE – Dr. Kohona confirms that HE
did not qualify to represent Sri Lanka at the UN level. As stated recently in
my recent article ‘Religious Leadership and the Law’:
[During poojah / mass – each one is to
her/himself as per her/his natural laws. Unless an act was so serious as to
disturb the peace at that place, no disciplinary action ought to be taken by
one against another from a higher position. During that time we are all Equals before the Lord.]
In other words, Truth was blocked by Dr.
Kohono also during those ‘talks’ due to his inability to free himself of the
attachment to higher status. This attachment came with the mind of the leader who served Dr. Kohona the UN
benefits. When one genuinely seeks Peace, one would naturally recognize the
other side as being Equal until known otherwise. Armed forces acting under
directions of the likes of Dr. Kohona therefore would get distracted by little
wins on the way and lose their way along the roadway to Peace. If indeed, Mr.
Ban Ki Moon gave a listening ear to Dr. Kohona, then Mr. Ban Ki Moon would have
been infected by the lack of belief-based-ownership needed – to dismiss the
LTTE.
UN is the Governing Council of global owners.
When they are over-regulated through external higher education, they would block the manifestation of Truth in
a free environment. In Sri Lanka, the termination of the services of a Judge is
belief based and hence needs to be based on disorderly conduct. The current
government came into power due to the previous government dismissing
itself from leadership position
including the position of Opposition Leader in People’s Parliament. Indian mind
is already included in the minds of TNA which holds that position. How did it
happen?
It happened due also to the likes of Dr.
Kohona & Dr. Jayatilleke applying intellectual merit to support actions
against ‘foreigners’ that the LTTE had become to them. That is the way of
excessive ‘external’ higher education to show cleverness above goodness. The
investment made by the Sri Lankan public in the likes of these pundits – is now
collapsing like the Meethotamulla garbage dump that collapsed on
Sinhalese-Tamil New Year. Astrological connections are being investigated well
ahead of merit based scientific connections. The previous time we heard such
reasoning was about the Presidential elections. Dr. Jayatilleke himself
confirms reliance as follows:
[While the Ramayana narrative makes clear
that a land link between India and Lanka was of decisive and devastating
strategic consequence for the island of Lanka, the Romans and the British made
it clear that the building of roadways was an essential part of annexation and
empire building. What is true of imperialisms gone by is true of contemporary
regional sub-imperialisms. ]
Swami Sathya Sai Baba says about the
leaders in Ramayana – that Ravana was clever; Rama was clever AND Good. The latter invaded another’s territory to try
and possess the other’s wife. Rama became part of any territory before He used His clever skills – including to
release His wife who was not His possession but part of Himself. Had Mr.
Rajapaksa entered Jaffna after he was part of it – Sri Lanka’s Sovereign
Borders would have been confirmed. Once we lose our Sovereignty due to desires –
we lose the moral authority to find fault with others who are confirming
current reality.
All because we over expended in Foreign/External
Higher Education while living in the
experiences where brawn ruled over brain.
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