Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
12 July 2017
Diffusing
Majority Power
One of my Vaddukoddai readers disputed my conclusion
that Tamils had the balance of power – in electing this government. The lady
claimed that Tamils voted for TNA and not for the Government. Tamil power through
the new Government was considered a
miracle by the lady. I responded as
follows:
[Taken at the
surface level, we are always a minority. Hence you could say that that
Government was NOT elected by Tamils. But to the extent we draw on our Truth –
we invoke the Sinhalese to vote for a Government that we need. These forces
work Naturally through invisible powers and hence they are known as
miracles. That was how I was able to work the immigration system to sponsor
Param’s family. I accumulated the credit by working much more than I was paid
for – including in Public Service. It’s like asking for boon / varam.]
Interestingly, yesterday I received another response
– also from one of my Vaddukoddai followers –thanking me for helping him
discipline some Australian family members who were disrespectful. This young
guy has expressed amazement that I was able to successfully sponsor –
especially one of my nephews-in-law at a
time when his own sibling was rejected. He stated that he reads the letter I wrote
when I represented him, to the other
side lawyer, again and again and is amazed that what is happening now is as
projected in that letter. This young
parent had the need and hence he was able to believe and appreciate. He is also
a very humble person. I often recall and bless him in my mind.
The former example is the parallel of those who are
seeking Separation. To them the total cannot be greater than the sum of the
individuals. The latter is the parallel of those who have a need to live the
average life they have invested in. Interestingly, the article to which the
lady responded was about the ‘Indru Poi,
Naalai Vaa/Go today and come back tomorrow / Back to the drawing board’ theory. As depicted in that picture –
Ravana – the king of Lanka has 10 heads – confirming double the physical
strength of a leader. Ravana, despite this strength ‘hijacked’ Seetha – the wife
of Rama of a different culture. When we ‘takeover’ earnings and entitlements of
those outside our cultural circles – without their submission we lose power
exponentially and v.v. It is to prevent this kind of damage that the daughter
is given dowry to encourage her to develop her own family on Equal basis as the
husband, she has married. Those who treat the other side as theirs – have to
forego their own entitlements to do so. They share. The further away that other
person is in terms of physical / biological distance – the deeper the level of
sacrifice and hence the greater the manifested value of that sacrifice. One
needs the parallel of calculus to determine the value of this manifestation.
Tamil National Opposition in Parliament is such a manifestation.
If we take the Tamil Political body itself – they do
divide from time to time but when in need they come together. Likewise Tamils
and Sinhalese in Colombo and other multicultural areas. It was this need generated
by the excessive powers of the former
regime that led to the Natural merger of
Sinhalese and Tamils at root level. The powerful common enemy generates the
common need. At the time of manifestation our accumulated Energies manifest
through the physical participants at that place. But the Energy itself is not
limited to those physical participants – in this instance the voters who voted.
If we carry high level of Energies – be they positive or negative – and we are
physically present – at that place – we influence exponential value outcomes
that cannot be measured through simple ruler. These are the Energy fields that
are picked up at the physical level.
The 2009 tragedy would have been worse if not for
such positive forces that carried the ‘discipline’ Energy on the Tamil side.
That factor may be too deep for the ordinary brain but the fact that Eastern
LTTE leader Karuna was on the side of the Government – informing the Government
is often lost on the government and its supporters who claim to have defeated
the enemy of Terrorism. To the extent the Energies of those to whom that part
of the land where the action happened was
‘home’ and they included militants as part of their/our family – it was Disciplinary action and not
punishment. Unless Colombo leaders are careful – the forces could combine again
through Common need and this time it could be from overseas led by the
Diaspora.
Colombo Today editorial under the heading ‘Going
back to 56’ (i.e. Sinhala only period) presents the following picture in
relation to the current crisis:
[While the
supremacist majority are willing to concede "Sri Lanka For All"
within the non-negotiable sine qua non of that supremacy, the recent events in
the Northern Provincial Council would indicate a move to oust Chief Minister
C.V. Wigneswaran and de-fang the LTTE diehards backing him in the ITAK who are
hard line promoters of the exclusivist federal demand that is tantamount to the
LTTE's separate State demand. In simple language, that demand means the North
and the East, are to be handed to them on a platter, constitutionally at that,
tacitly recognizing Tamil-Hindu supremacy in the federal architecture!]
This may happen if the Buddhist clergy keep wanting
10 heads. Currently, the main topic of discussion within Diaspora groups is the uprising of Buddhist monks who seem to think
they have ‘lost’ their supremacy.
North-East merger backed by India – is likely to manifest this other
side of Buddhist clergy – through Hindu supremacy with is also Tamil supremacy.
Not only would we go back to 1956 but also 1987 when India entered Sri Lanka to
curb the excesses of the Government through the Armed Forces. This time it is
likely to be the UN Peacekeeping forces invoked by Diaspora power. The real
power is the commitment of migrants to orderly governance in those countries –
especially when they are unsupervised. That makes those powers global and hence
the influence over UN which has become the protective power of Tamils of
minority status.
The above mentioned editorial makes the connection
between the weakness in Northern Provincial Council and the uprising of the
Buddhist clergy. Is there a root-connection?
Is it in the horoscope of the Provincial Council structure? Like the Buddhist
clergy who want double majority power through ‘Buddhism foremost’ do Tamils
like Mr. Wigneswaran who inherited the Militant genes rather than the
Vaddukoddai Resolution genes want more Ravana power? Do they not believe that the powers of other
Tamils to whom Sri Lanka is home.
If disintegrated, Mr. Wigneswaran is basically a
Colombo Tamil and has no right to ask for a separate home in North or East. He
wouldn’t except as a puppet of those who want more Ravana heads. This kind of
empowerment was confirmed in 1983.
The enrolments with Tamil militant groups was at its
highest after the 1983 pogrom in Colombo and other areas where Tamils were
migrants. All those to whom a place where they are minority by numbers, is ‘home’
– would invoke the powers of others to whom also that place is home. If such
powers are not within that geographic area – they would invoke from far – to the
extent their relatives have made homes
in other nations ‘before’ actively participating in Sri Lankan / Tamil Eelam politics.
One who identifies with this deeper power residing
in the roots of our makeup – would not need to invade other areas. Mr.
Wigneswaran was elected by the People of North. Once he makes North his ‘home’
under that structure – he would naturally feel at home in East as well. At the
base is his Colombo genes which seems to be reacting to the Buddhist clergy and
Colombo politicians and blocking his path to feeling at home in Jaffna. The
more he needs Colombo or East – the stronger the confirmation that he has
failed in his duty as elected member of North. It also defeats the claim of
independence in asking for Separation of Powers. A true claimant of Separation
of Powers would recognize the opposition within that area and not outside. Realising
home-power is important for those of us who seek to participate in global
affairs. In terms of birth – I was born in Jaffna even though at that time my
parents were living in Colombo. I was blessed by Saint Yoga Swami of Jaffna
also – as soon as I was born and my father reported /submitted my birth to Saint
Yoga Swami. But Mr. Wigneswaran as per published details – has to make a home
in Jaffna for which he should not be renouncing his Colombo citizenship.
This is a Common solution to the ISIS problem also. Muslims
in their Islamic home nations would naturally be supported by Muslims in other
nations to whom those other nations are / were already ‘home’ before they became
actively aware of the Islamic nation’s problems. If the problems of the country
of origin is dominant in our mind, before we realise homeliness in our new
countries, then effectively we are making reverse migrants of ourselves.
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